[Gllug] CUPS

[John Edwards]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 01:37:40PM +0000, Martin Stevens wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Finally getting round to setting up printing on my network here.
> 
> The tale so far,
> 
> (All Linux machines here are debian woody)
> 
> I have a server with CUPS and an HP Inkjet 895Cxi.
> 
> The printer is configured (i think) and i can print a test page 
> from the CUPS web interface.
> 
> I have my workstation, with CUPS installed and a printer pointing 
> to the server, which will also print the test page from the web interface.
> 
> I want to allow Windows clients to use the printer as well (So that'll be samba of course)

You can either print directly using IPP (see the Cups docs) or print via 
Samba just as you would to a Windows server.

> How do i get applications to see the printer ? Printcap ? 
> The printcap.cups only has one line generated in it, the name of the rinter.
> 
> I don't seem to have any off the lp tools set up, which package to use ?

In Debian the Cups versions of lpr, lpq, lprm and lpc are in a seperate 
packages called "cupsys-bsd".

> Printing on Linux it one thing i have never been able to get right, and it's starting to bug me.


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