Re: Windows and Printing Systems

From: Pigeon (jah.pigeon_at_ukonline.co.uk)
Date: 01/31/04

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    On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 04:56:32AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
    > Marius Amado Alves wrote:
    > >* Printing/CUPS *
    > >I managed to install cupsys via apt-get and added a printer with the web
    > >interface, but this printer does not show up in the print dialog of the
    > >applications. It's an HP DeskJet on the parallell port. What am I
    > >missing?
    >
    > [Rant]
    > I'd love to help you, but printing on Linux is _still_ a black art. I've
    > been using Debian exclusively on my boxes for about four years now, and
    > I generally just avoid printing if I can. Of course everyone's going to
    > come back on this comment and say "Use CUPS! It's ultra easy!" or "You
    > did replace the obsolete lpr with lprng, right?" and such, but then you
    > still have to tell Mozilla to print to "qtcups" or to "lpr -PmyPrinter
    > --use-secret-incantation" and configure OpenOffice.org (somehow . . .)
    > and, and, and, and it's just black magic as far as I can tell. And I'm
    > not a stupid person. So the short answer is, "Good luck!"
    > [/End_of_Rant]

    I install cupsys-bsd, and in the "Print Command" dialog box of any
    application I'm printing from I enter "lp". I haven't used
    OpenOffice.org, but this works for everything else I've tried,
    including mozilla. 

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