Re: configuring printers in lenny.... is foomatic gui not working....?
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 09:09:57PM +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> I just tried to configure my Epson D88 printer in Lenny, In Etch this was pretty easy.
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> In Lenny I found the printer icon under system tools and it seemed as though it was about start the foomatic gui and then it silently died without an error message or anything being posted up in the gnome display area.
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> I tried again a few times and it kept on doing it.
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> Is foomatic unwell in Lenny at the moment?
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> If so how should I configure the printer? Could I use gutenprint or do I need foomatic as well to do it?
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> Comments appreciated
If you have cupsys and foomatic and such installed, just point a browser
at http://localhost:631/admin and add the printer. For a USB printer it
almost always even autodetects the model and makes everything very
simple. None of the GUI tools ever seemed worth the bother given how
simple the cups web interface is.
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Len Sorensen
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