USB Printer and Firefox

[Tim Waugh]

On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 12:59:33AM -0700, Frank Chen wrote:

> We have an HP LaserJet 1010 printer with USB
> connection. There are two issues using it with FC4.
> 
> 1) After plug in the USB cable, it takes some time for
> FC4 to recognize the printer. Is there a way to speed
> up this process by using a command?

The delay is probably caused by needing to load the foomatic database
of printers and drivers.  There is code in FC4 to cache this, so
perhaps that is not working for some reason.  Do you have a
/var/cache/foomatic/printconf.pickle file?

> 2) We have to restart FC4 after plug in the printer in
> order to print from Firefox. Is there a way to avoid
> rebooting the PC?

Why do you have to restart it?

Tim.
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