[Colchester] USB printing Debian Etch How?

[Ian Snow]

On Monday 17 March 2008 16:21:35 Wayland Sothcott wrote:
> Hello Colchester,
>
> I have been attempting to print to a Minolta DiALTA laser printer at a
> customer site from the Debian Etch server I just installed. I know I
> have CUPS installed but I don't think the Parallel port printing works
> on the server and printer but I know the USB works when plugged in a
> Windows box.
>
>  From looking at tail of the server /var/log file I can see that it sees
> the USB printer being plugged in and out but I can't get CUPS test print
> to make a page come out. I have used the CUPS web interface
> https://mysvr:631/ but the printer USB is not listed.
>
> I have been searching the Internet for a good procedure to get this
> going. I's possible I am missing printers module from the kernal. Has
> can anyone give me a good procedure for getting printing going on Debian
> Etch. I am pretty sure I can share it if I could only get it to print.
>
> Cheers,
> Wayland.
>
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Hi Wayland,

Doing a quick search for Minolta DiALTA brings up a multitude of different 
versions, so being more specific would be helpful

I think cups that old, version 1.2.7 from what i've found doesn't 
automatically find printers, you need to add them through the web interface.

Also http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting is a good a place as any 
for knowing if a printer works

Ian