Printing in KDE - How best to - Konq, inkjet
What's the best way currently to set KDE up for printing?
Have you done this recently?
Specifically: Recent Woody install.
This will be primarily for printing web pages from Konq.
using a recent parallel port Epson Inkjet printer
which is supposed to be well supported for Linux:
http://www.linuxprinting.org/suggested.html
http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/i386/install
Has section:
9: Next Steps and Where to Go From Here
Which doesn't have any suggestions about printing.
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/os.html#OSPRINTING
Points to an outdated howto, whose current version is here:
http://www.linuxprinting.org
http://www.linuxprinting.org/howto/
I glanced at that, and
Printing Software by Grant Taylor, in Category Reviews - Saturday,
September 15th 2001 00:00 EST at:
http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/296/
(Aside: Among other things, this says:
"The gimp-print project has produced a driver suite that drives most
Epson Stylus and many other brands of color inkjet printers."
So, do I need to install GNOME stuff to get that?)
I searched the Debian KDE archive for last quarter and found
articles like: Printing with CUPS 1.1.10 on KDE 2.1.2
http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2001/debian-kde-200110/msg00044.html
So, that's on a specific package (CUPS). But, I didn't find anything
about _how_ to determine _which_ printing sw to use.
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There is quite a bit to digest in the above links.
I'm hoping someone here (you?) has digested that (& perhaps more)
and will save me/us some time with a quick suggestion of
the best
[referencing: http://www.linuxprinting.org/howto/ &
http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/296/ ]
drivers
spoolers
user interfaces
to use, and how to get them installed on a KDE system.
So, specifically:
1) What packages should I apt-get,
2) How to install which drivers,
3) etc.
[I'm new to doing printer setup on Linux.
All help/suggestions appreciated. Thanks! :) ]
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