Re: network printer and Cups
Camaleón wrote:
> On Tue, 11 May 2010 15:22:32 +1930, Germana Oliveira wrote:
>
>> i'm trying to manage my network printer from cups.
>>
>> printer: ImageRunner 4570
>> OS: Debian Lenny
>> Driver: Canon iR3570/iR4570 UFR II ver.2.0
>
> You mean your printer is configured into a Debian box with CUPS and
> windows clients are printing through CUPS?
>
>> this printer have the 'Department ID' feature active, so it should ask
>> me for my ID and password when i try to print, instead, it send the job
>> but never get to the printer output.
>>
>> I could not even print a test page.
>> What am i doing wrong???
>
> I'm not sure whether CUPS is capable of supporting such authenticating
> features, but if you think yes, review the CUPs logs under "/var/log/cups/
> error.log" to check what's going on with sent jobs.
>
> Greetings,
>
Cups supports authentication if you ask it to.
Also apps like kprinter or gnome-print do.
The guy should give more information and more specific questions, as we are
not allmighty and allknowing. Also I think that there are quite a lot of
guides in the net - thus my funny question - and he/she even did not write
back
regards
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