Enable printer wierdness ??

Timothy Teer timothy at teer-mi.com
Mon Jan 1 18:09:05 UTC 2007



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From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Kam Leo
Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 12:50
To: For users of Fedora
Subject: Re: Enable printer wierdness ??

On 1/1/07, William Case <billlinux at rogers.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 19:08 -0500, William Case wrote:
> > Hi Karn and Aaron;
> >
> > On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 16:42 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 13:37 -0500, William Case wrote:
> > > > Hi;
> >
>
> > > The fact that you indicate that you are chek marking a printer as
> > > enabled leads me to believe you are not using the cups web page to
> > > configure your printers. Is that true? If so that is a mistake. Use the
> > > web interface ans maybe your troubles will disappear.
> >
> > I am not using the Cups web page printer setup.  I have tried both.
> > George (the system-configure-printer gui) and Cups are supposed to be
> > equivalent in FC6.  (system-configure-printer gui is quite a mouthful,
> > so I just call the little printer icon George).
> >
> > At least that is what I have been told Fedora is striving for.  In any
> > case, Cups gives me no joy, in fact it makes things worse by not
> > printing anything ( but I haven't looked into why).
> >
> Just went through the same exercise using Cups:631 to install my
> printer.  Still end up with 'enabled' switching itself off.
>

hplip. HP wrote and donated it for a purpose. Try it.

> >
> > > >
> > > > I am baffled.
> >
> > --
> > Regards Bill, FC6
> >
> --
> Regards Bill

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