Jim McCloskey wrote:
He wasn't using the tools you'd use. I set up an HP 3550 last week. I configured CUPS using my web browser. When I chose a "USB" printer, there it was.|> And what's wrong with CUPS? It's what's on your Mac. Well, it's not *my* Mac ..... More seriously, I've configured CUPS before on a different system, and that experience was as horrific as Eric Raymond's[1]. And using CUPS to solve this tiny problem seems like overkill in the extreme, Jim [1] http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cups-horror.html
There were more questions than there should have been, but it beat the last version of Red Hat's tool that I used (likely on RHL 7.3, I don't recall whether I set it up on my FC2 box and it's out at present).
In KDE, I had to say it's a CUPS printer on that there pooter and that was about it. I don't recall that it was harder than setting up a printer on my Mac.
If I didn't have all the right software in place, it would have been different: OSX installed pretty much everything so when I came to set up an HP LJ1200 it had the drivers.
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