Webtop Printing

[rodo78]

I am trying to set up my Epson Artisan 725 wifi printer to print from the webtop using the lapdock. Webtop can find the printer and installs the generic postscript driver. When I try to print anything the job gets sent to the printer but it just prints %!PS-Adobe-3.0 followed by a bunch of other %% lines and letters. About a quarter of the page down on the first page that prints it says "(This print job requires a PostScript Language Level 2 printer.)"

Moto's website says:
"The ATRIX only supports Network printing, WiFi and Bluetooth printing using the webtop. It does not support USB printing. The webtop supports black & white and color Postscript network printers and Black & White PCL6 network printers (no color). The following generic drivers are included currently with the webtop:

* PostScript Level 2,
* PostScript Level 3
* PCL version 6"

When I am installing the driver in webtop mode I don't get the choice of level 2 or level 3 so I am guessing it is just trying to autodetect based on the printer and driver.

I can print from the phone using Cloud Print Beta. I can print to file from webtop and then print that pdf file using Cloud Print Beta. Ideally I would like to get the driver working with webtop to make printing an easier process.

Any ideas? Anyone else successful in printing from webtop?

 

[ruarri]

pcl6 works

I am trying to set up my Epson Artisan 725 wifi printer to print from the webtop using the lapdock. Webtop can find the printer and installs the generic postscript driver. When I try to print anything the job gets sent to the printer but it just prints %!PS-Adobe-3.0 followed by a bunch of other %% lines and letters. About a quarter of the page down on the first page that prints it says "(This print job requires a PostScript Language Level 2 printer.)"

The Epson is detecting that it is being sent postscript, so it aborts. Otherwise you might be publishing a 20 document page of text. Fortunately, the Epson programmers know that many of us can not read postscript. The Epson Artisan talks a dialect of ESC/P2. If you expect to print you'll have to find out if you can use something like piping the print output through ghostscript. That might be a long path for you. I'm surprised that Motorola didn't put more effort into including more modern print drivers! In my case, I'm surprised that color wasn't included.

Black and white printing "just works" with HP printers that speak PCL natively.

-ruarri

 

[andresrivas]

humm... what if we install cups? (i mean, a full fledged cups)
if you can get ubuntu, you could try install it from the repositories..

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