[Klug-general] Setting up CUPS

[Peter Childs]

On 26/02/2008, Andrew Miller (Spode) <spode at thinkbikes.com> wrote:
>
> As a continuation to what we were talking about at the last Linux meet,
> I have managed to setup CUPS as previously wanted.
>
> For those who weren't there, I have been connecting to my networked CUPS
> printers via Samba, and having to install the drivers on each machine.
> As the Canon CAPT drivers are a PITA and not 64-bit compatible, this
> wasn't an option for me.
>
> I tried ticking the "Show printers shared by other systems" tick box,
> and it made no difference. I wonder if I need to have NFS setup properly
> for that to work. In the end I added a new printer and just put the URI
> as:
>
> http://192.168.0.113:631/printers/LBP5000
>
> Which seemed FAR too simple. But sent off a test page and all worked
> perfectly!
>
> Many thanks to whomever helped me at the event (I remember the face, but
> not the name - an awful flaw of mine).
>
> Spode
>
>
Do we want to organize a Tech talk on Printing at some point, maybe include
faxing as well just an idea.

Peter.
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