Re: adding a printer
On Fri 03 Jan 2014 at 20:25:53 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> cups was installed, when I first went to print, it wanted to print to
> the pdf printer.. but there was no way for me to install a printer..
> all I was missing was the
> 1 - http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/system-config-printer
When Wheezy is installed you only get system-config-printer if one of
three task-* packages is installed. As said, localhost:631 could be used
for setting up a printer.
brian@desktop:~$ apt-cache --no-suggests rdepends system-config-printer
system-config-printer
Reverse Depends:
task-xfce-desktop
task-lxde-desktop
task-kde-desktop
Having cups installed implies you chose the print server task in d-i.
You mention "the pdf printer"; does this mean you installed cups-pdf
afterwards (it is not included in the print server task)? I can see no
benefit in using it over and above "Print to File" offered by desktop
applications.
Iceweasel (for example) produces a PDF to be sent to the printer.
cups-pdf converts this to PostScript and then back to a PDF. This might
cause you think why you used it in the first place.
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