Re: CUPS Stable & Testing
sdownes wrote:
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I've got the deb stable packages installed with default settings at
present but had the same problem with the testing version & played about
with a lot of settings in that before purging it & starting again. I do
have cupsys cupsys-client & cupsys-bsd installed but not the gimp package.
Those packages "should" pull in most of the other packages that you need.
I would suggest you also install a set of printer-drivers like
cupsys-driver-gimpprint. I use that one here and the quality is quite
good on my HP 960C Inkjet printer. Alternatively you can try the
cupsomatic-ppd package or the foomatic-bin + foomatic-db package combo.
The latter "alternative" is preferable. I notice that these packages
are listed as "suggested" at the Debian "Packages" site. I dunno what
that means, as I couldn't get anything going here without them.... I
guess you could assemble you own or use the ones provided by
GhostScript... dunno.
If you use KDE, then I would also install the kdelibs3-cups package.
The KDE setup wizard is quite nice. You can get to it via the KDE
"Control Center" --> "System" --> "Printing Manager" menu. Make sure
you select "CUPS (Common Unix Print System)" as the print system
currently used at the bottom of the screen. Click on the magic wand
icon and fill in the questions in the wizzard screens. I have found
this the simplist way to get my printer going here.
If you don't use KDE, then you will probably have to configure CUPS via
the "http://localhost:631"; web-browser method. I have not used that
method much here, so can't give you any tips...sorry.
HTH,
Cheers,
-Don Spoon-
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