Re: cups and deskjet 840c
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 09:15:27PM +1000, Joel Mayes wrote:
> On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 02:03:09PM +0200, Mao's Br?derle wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Has anyone had any experience with cups and the deskjet 840c?! As I understood from cups.org, this printer is supported, although "mostly". When I open "http://localhost:631/admin";, I get "this file contains no data". The other sections of this interface are also empty.
> > The docs say that I can add a printer with the "lpadmin" command ( unfortunately, this wasn't in the .deb package I downloaded.).
> > My local user is in the "lpadmin" group and the printer does respond ( usually...) to "lpr filename". It only prints the first line of the text, though...
> > Any tips?!
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Eamon Roque
> >
> I can't help with all the question but did you install cupsys-client, as well
> as cupsys, I was looking for the lpstat and lpadim commands mentioned in the
> manual to until I took a guess and installed cupsys-client, Voila
>
> Cheers
>
> Joel
well, I've got the lpadmin etc... Thanks!
now I need to get the printer working...
Eamon Roque
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