[olug] printing in gnu/linux - argh!

[Carl Lundstedt]

I can honestly say I've never had any trouble printing from 'other apps'
using cups.  When I want to print from "progamX" it pops up a dialog.  I
just indicate that I want the job to goto lpr -Pprinternamehere and away
it goes.

I think if you can print from the command line, you should be able to
print from your favorite app without any issue.

In Mozilla (which I don't generally use) I was able to print to the
printer without having to monkey with any of the setting. (My printer is
attached to a different Linux box running cups), but I found the
'advanced' properties button allows you to set the printer up manually
if you'd like.

I can even switch what printer I wish to dump the job to.

I guess my answer is 'it works for me', but I'm running Mandrake which
handles a lot of that for me. (But I do know I've successfully installed
CUPS on our DEC Unix machines and had it work flawlessly with
Netscape...)

Carl Lundstedt
UNL
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 11:48, Brian Wiese wrote:
> Does someone know all the magical tricks to make printing work wonderfully
> in gnu/linux, across multiply software applications?
> 
> I have CUPS installed and use it to setup my printer just fine, at least I
> know it has a driver and it's got a nice webbased front end to setup my
> printers.  But now when I try to print from Mozilla, Opera, programX... it
> doesn't know anything about my printer?  Is there an easy way to configure
> these programs, or all programs to recognize the printers available
> through CUPS/lpr?
> 
> Currently, I just have to print to a postscript file, then 'lpr' that
> file.  Thats just not nice!  With some past gnu/linux installs, much of it
> had been setup already nicely.  I think even SuSE 7.3 and it's KDE
> recognized my same printer and I was able to print from Opera and such w/o
> a problem.
> 
> Anyone willing to present on 'printing in linux' at OLUG? =)
> 
> peace, thanks
> 
>   Brian Wiese | bwiese at cotse.com | aim: unolinuxguru
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