Re: Printer works fine now, but not with non-kde apps?
On Monday 12 November 2001 22:56, John Gay wrote:
> After many sleepless nights re-compiling ghostscript5.50 to get my Samsung
> ml4500 'gdi' printer working, sort-of, I found that cups and ghostscript6.50
> from unstable support my printer and now I can print without having to call
> gs by hand, as root, specifying the driver and printer port! I can just open
> any KDE app, and select print and my new cups-provided ml4500 printer is
> magically there! The downside is, this does not work for non-KDE apps. These
> only show the old lp printer I had spent ages trying to get to work, but
> couldn't.
>
> How do I make the cups-provided ml4500 printer available to the rest of my
> system?
Make sure that you have the cups printer clients installed. They are in packages
cupsys-bsd (lpr, lpq, ...)
cupsys-client (lp, cancel, ...)
Some apps parse /etc/printcap themself. Direct cupsd to generate the /etc/printcap
ds02[0] ~ # grep Printcap /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
Printcap /etc/printcap
Achim
>
> I realise this is a little off-topic, but it was thanks the KDE and the tips
> for fetching unstable packages that made it possible for my to use my printer
> again! KDE has come a long way towards making Linux usable for the non-geeks
> out there.
>
> Thanks for all the support!
>
> Cheers,
>
> John Gay
>
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