[HLUG] printing packages with ubuntu

[Graham Cole]

Thanks very much Julian, I have played a bit more and have printing for
Gedit and Evolution now. The password problem was with CUPS own web
interface (which I was sometimes trying to use instead of Gnome print
manager). There is a strange incompatibility with Ubuntu which does not
matter as there is the Gnome alternative for managing printers.
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 21:20 +0100, Julian Robbins wrote:
> Graham Cole wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 09:52 +0100, Julian Robbins wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Graham Cole wrote:
> >>    
> >>
> >>>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
> >>> 
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>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. 
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >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.
> >  
> >
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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