[Gllug] usb printing nightmare

[Matthew King]

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On 20/07/05 11:35:18, John Hearns wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 10:21 +0000, Matthew King wrote:
> 
> > > Sarcasm is not going to help.  Try eliciting the information you
> > > need.
> >
> > Why?
> >
> > My printers work. I don't need anything.
> >
> Gary is a long standing member of this list.
> He gave us plenty of information  - printer model, distribution, the
> fact that is is detected by the system and is configured in the print
> setup.

Actually from his original email the furthest I can see that he got is  
that he plugged it in and loaded hal-d-m to see it. There is no mention  
of configuring the print system except that "try as I might I just  
can't get it to print". I can assume SOMEthing was configured, but as  
we are not told, I have no idea what, if anything, that is.

Now to be fair, my first response was a sarcastic (yes, I know) dig. It  
was only then that everyone ELSE blew up. I am happy to help Gary,  
especially as I have struggled with printing a lot in the past and know  
how much of a bitch it can be, regardless of platform or printer, but I  
cannot help anyone without any information (in this case - what was  
tried and failed).

There are at least 4 distinct methods that I know of to configure cups  
alone and a myriad of methods for the other print spoolers with varying  
degrees of complexity. Should I just guess which have or have not been  
used? And for which spooler?

Assumption is the mother of all fuckups.

Matthew

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