Re: Windows and Printing Systems
From: Kent West (westk_at_acu.edu)
Date: 01/31/04
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Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 13:48:39 -0600 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Pigeon wrote:
>On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 04:56:32AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
>
>
>>Marius Amado Alves wrote:
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>>
>>>* 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.
>
>
>
The one machine I tried this on did not work that way (I finally
resorted to using qtcups as the command, which works fine). Of course, I
was printing to a color network printer via IP. And that's my point.
Sure cups works, here, here, and here. But once you start throwing in
the exceptions, a winprinter here, a network printer there, a usb
printer over yon, it seems that there's no canonical solution. I've had
enough success to know that most problems can be overcome, but I can't
answer the original poster's questions, because there's never a
consistent pattern that works for me.
Don't take this as whining; I'm just saying that my perception of
printing in Linux is that it's still a black art, and I'm not wizard
enough to solve the problem remotely (whereas if I were sitting at his
machine I could probably eventually beat it into submission).
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