[Glastonbury] Just a little idea

[tim hall]

Last Tuesday 09 November 2004 17:29, Martin Wheeler was like:
> On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, tim hall wrote:
> >  Mind you, the biggest PITA to configure on
> > Debian has to be CUPS, the only one that relies on GUI config, go figure.
>
> Strangely, I found it worked 'out the box' once I'd got the driver loaded.
> (But then I'm using a USB cable -- and with this printer, I know that
> that's the only type of cable that will work with the CUPS setup.)

I have the same problem with USB :(

> My big problem when I first installed it was in trying to print from
> Mozilla.  I didn't know it then, but that version of Mozilla simply
> refused to print properly.  With anything.
> I opened up something like Abiword and printed from that, and had no
> problem thereafter.
>
> I do vaguely remember having to put the full path to the driver (not just
> its name) into something somwhere to get it all to work, though.
> Might've been gimp-print.
>
> FWIW, this is what I have installed:
>
> cupsys
> cupsys-bsd
> cupsys-client
> cupsys-driver-gimpprint
> cupsys-driver-gimprint-data
>
> foomatic-bin
> foomatic-db
> foomatic-db-engine
> foomatic-db-gimp-print
> foomatic-db-hpijs
> foomatic-filters
> foomatic-gui
>
> And for the driver, there shouldn't be any problem using alien on a .rpm.
> I've always had great success using alien.
>
> HTH

Yes it does, thanks.

tim hall