Re: What's the std print config tool
"Lindsay" == Lindsay Yardley <lindsay@ebuild.net.au> writes:
Lindsay> G'day all, What is the standard printer configuration
Lindsay> tool used by debian 3 r0. I'm trying to install a printer
Lindsay> but the documentation is not helping me at all. If I
Lindsay> could find the config tool name that'd be a start,
Lindsay> perhaps then the Printing HowTo will make more sense.
Lindsay> tia Lindsay
As Bob points out, cupsys is what a lot of people are using. I
switched to it about a year ago and it works fine for me. I have a HP
Laserjet hooked up.
My woody system has
shyamal@rattler:~$ dpkg -l 'cups*' | grep ^i
ii cupsys 1.1.14-4.4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - server
ii cupsys-bsd 1.1.14-4.4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - BSD comman
ii cupsys-client 1.1.14-4.4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - client pro
ii cupsys-driver- 4.2.0-4 gimp-print printer driver for CUPS
ii cupsys-pstoras 1.1.14-4.4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - pstoraster
shyamal@rattler:~$ dpkg -l '*hp*' | grep ^i
ii hp-ppd 0.4-0 HP Postscript Printer Definition (PPD) files
You configure the printes via http://localhost:631/ once it is all
installed. Be sure to read the Debian specific notes in
/usr/share/doc/cupsys/ if you choose to go along this path.
It's been a while, but I don't remember the set up being particularly
difficult. One key step for me which took a while to figure out was to
install cupsys-bsd.
Cheers!
Shyamal
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