[olug] printing in gnu/linux - argh!

[Jonathan Warren]

I think the answer is to buy a printer with good vendor support.  Overall I have never had a "wonderful" experience getting printers to work.

-Jon W

On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 11:48:05AM -0600, 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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