Re: Windows and Printing Systems
On Saturday 31 January 2004 05:56 am, Kent West wrote:
> I'd love to help you, but printing on Linux is _still_ a black art.
> I've been using Debian exclusively on my boxes for about four years
> now, and I generally just avoid printing if I can.
> And I'm not a stupid person. So the short answer is, "Good luck!"
I don't know about other desktop environments, but under KDE, with the
kdeprint package you configure all your printers under Settings ->
Printing Manager, then have your applications just use /usr/bin/kprinter
as the print command. Printing Manager has a wizard for adding printers,
and supports both local and networked printers (via CUPS, lpr, SMB, etc).
If you prefer another desktop environment, the KDE developers claim that
kdeprint can be used outside of KDE (though I've never tested this).
Hope this helps.
Adam
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