<table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' ><tr><td valign='top' style='font: inherit;'>Thanks for the reply David.<br><br>I do have a few questions that I hope you'll be able to answer.<br><br>1) do I do the <br><pre>modprobe lp<br>echo lp >> /etc/modules<br>apt-get remove --purge cupsys<br>apt-get install cupsys <br> ---or---<br> apt-get install cupsys cupsys-driver-gutenprint hplip </pre>from the 'terminal'<br><br>2) what's the difference between the two 'apt-get' lines?<br><br>3) How do I make sure the user is in the groups lp and lpadmin? And would I have to check this for all users?<br><br>Thanks<br><br>Ron<br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 11/6/08, David Aldred <i><david@familyaldred.org.uk></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: David Aldred <david@familyaldred.org.uk><br>Subject: Re: [Nottingham] Not printing<br>To: ron_w_add@yahoo.co.uk,
nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>Date: Wednesday, 11 June, 2008, 9:59 PM<br><br><pre>On Wednesday 11 June 2008, Ron Wilton wrote:<br>> Thanks for the suggestion.<br>><br>> I have looked at the printer tool, but am not sure what options to change.<br>> I have made my printer the default printer (by pressing the 'Make<br>default'<br>> button), but still I am getting no print outs from other programmes (eg<br>> OpenOffice). However, when I request a Test Page from within the printer<br>> tool I do get a test page printed out.<br>><br>> Hoping you can help.<br>><br>> PS I do like your quote at the end of your email.<br><br>I had a similar problem a few months ago - I'm using Sidux so probably a<br>few <br>software versions ahead of Ubuntu (so my system breaks before yours!). The <br>advice on the Sidux forum was to do:<br><br>modprobe lp<br>echo lp >> /etc/modules<br>apt-get remove --purge cupsys<br>apt-get install
cupsys <br> ---or---<br> apt-get install cupsys cupsys-driver-gutenprint hplip <br><br>(the alternatives there depending on the printer you use).<br><br>Also make sure your user is in the groups lp and lpadmin. <br><br>That worked for me to get local printing back: network printing was still a <br>problem, but IIRC that was something to do with the file <br> /etc/cups/cupsd.conf: if you get your printer working locally but not over a <br>network come back and I'll try to remember what the magic was for that bit!<br><br>-- <br>David Aldred</pre></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>
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