[HLUG] printing packages with ubuntu

[Julian Robbins]

Graham Cole wrote:

>On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 09:52 +0100, Julian Robbins wrote:
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>>Graham Cole wrote:
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>>>Give me a clue please.... having abandoned CUPS and installed a lot of
>>>libgnomeprint packages I wonder which other ones are necessary to enable
>>>printing. I use Gnome so kdeprint would not be for me I guess.
>>>Thanks
>>>Graham
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>>These days CUPS is the only real way of printing with Linux. You might 
>>get something else to work, but CUPS is a far better solution than 
>>postscript files and magic filters ever was. 
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>OK , thanks for that Julian. I easily removed completely CUPS, both
>cupsys (the server) and gnome-cups-manager. Now I am back to an annoying
>problem which wasted a lot of time in weeks past. There is a password
>demanded for admin and the CUPS manual says I should use the command
>lppasswd to set one. When I try to (as root) I am stopped because bash
>does not recognize this command.
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Why exactly do you need the CUPS password ? I can't find the CX3600 in 
the list of printers avaialble in Ubuntu, but quite often most printers 
can be used by setting them up as a similar model which will use the 
same driver. One post shows that the CX3100 can be used successfully to 
print with , ie 
http://www.linuxprinting.org/pipermail/epson-list/2004q4/004125.html

So if you just select your printer and usb port when does it ask you for 
the password ?

Julian