On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 08:44:47PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 06:43:47PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: >>> Gabriel Parrondo wrote: >>>> Why are you saying the version shipped with Debian is broken? Have you >>>> tried it on other distros and it's different? >>> Yes. >>> >>> [snip] >>> >>>> This is gnome, love it or leave it! >>> Works on my distro. I can't get it to work with Debian. >> what does it do Mike? details man! > > It's difficult to remember now, but what I recall was that > I tried starting the GUI, and selected "Add new printer" > or sth like that. When I tried to create the new instance, > I was not allowed to select the one which was already > there. It wanted me to enter a whole new connection, > name, type, etc. Trying to create a new printer with > a new name but the same connection was also refused. > It appeared not to understand what I was trying to do. > It seemed to think that it was some sort of error to try > to associate multiple queues with one physical printer > connection. as we've discussed, this *does* work on my current, up-to-date sid box. And my understanding is that it does work in CUPS in general and has for a while. I suspect its a case of PEBCAK. :) You can definitely set up another queue and you can do so for sure through the localhost:631 interface. YOu have to review all the data from the other instance of the printer as you have to re-enter it as if creating the printer from scratch. BUt it should just work at that point. Also, you've mentioned this being an HP printer. Please confirm that hplip and all its dependencies are installed. It sounds like she's got an HP PSC something or other. I have installed and used three of these printers of various models (1210, 1315 and mumble mumble) and they work great using hplip. This is the same kind of printer that I used for the above multi-queue testing. Note that the printers do not (afaict) allow you to specify the resolution through the gnome-cups-manager, but it does allow you to specify the "printout mode" in the "advanced" tab in the printer properties. The printout mode will allow you to choose "draft" or "high-quality" as well as different color options. Also the hplip toolbox will allow you to do all kinds of things with the printer just like in the other os. hth A
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