Re: cups and deskjet 840c

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

Mao's Brüderle 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.

  that's because the cupsys package is broken. see bugs for cupsys (on
www.debian.org)

  btw why does cupsys have a lot of old unfixed bugs (at least some of
which are very easy to fix)? is it not maintained anymore?

	erik