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  • From: Spencer Ogden <spencero AT mail.utexas.edu>
  • To: SM-Discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] printer config
  • Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 13:57:43 -0500

I you want to use CUPS, I would highly recommended the printer tools in
KDE. They have some really good setup wizards and the like.

Spencer

On Tuesday 03 September 2002 01:00 pm, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Jeremy Kolb said:
> > I have a question. In the cups docs it mentions that if you type in
> > lpstat (think followed with a -v or something) you can see the
> > supported devices for printing. well in the docs they show one for
> > usb, but when i type it in i don't see anything for usb, and my
> > printer sadly is only connected via usb. i have usb support compiled
> > into the kernel, and my printer shows up, but for some reason our cups
> > doesn't want to talk to usb, so how do i go about fixing this?
> >
> > Jeremy
>
> Jeremy,
>
> I really have no idea, I've only dealt with parallel printers in Linux
> (I have only one USB device, and that's for video games :)). You may
> want to make sure that you have all of the appropriate USB devices
> loaded with 'modprobe -v <module>' and that the computer connected to
> the printer can print through it. From there, follow the directions on
> the CUPS website, they may have some info in the FAQ or ML that talk
> about USB printers. Also, you may want to try a search on Google.
>
> -One of Three
> a.k.a. sandalle





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