Hello Gustin, I tried the add printer from the wizard and only succeeded in adding a pseudo printer. So I removed the pseudo printer and looked at the web site, but was unable to figure out how to use the information.
Regards, Michael Gustin Johnson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > If you are running a fairly recent version of kde, you may have an > easier time if you run the add printer wizard. On my system it is under > the kde "K" menu -> "Print System -> "Add Printer..." > > It steps you through connecting a printer. It looks like there is a > driver for your canon, though I have only owned HP printers in the last > few years (I just picked up an HP 2200 DN from VFX, and it rocks under > linux). > > If the KDE wizard does not help or is not applicable, a good place to > start is this website: > http://linuxprinting.org/ > > > bogi wrote: > >>check in (my system, mandrake 9.1) >>/etc/cups/cupsd.conf >> >>make sure that: >> >>Browsing On >> >>and you may want to set >> >>BrowseInterval 30 >>BrowseDeny All >>BrowseAllow @LOCAL >> >>Now to the task of actually getting cupsd running on your system >> >>/etc/init.d/cups status >> >>note that your init scripts may be in a different place in a debian based >>distro. >> >>This should tell you if it is running, now that you know, and have made >>changes to the config file, you might want to restart or start cups if it was >>not running. >> >>note the line >> >>#Port 80 >>#Port 443 >>Port 631 >> >>port 631 should be your friend in this case, >> >> >>fire up your browser and point it to localhost:631 >> >> >>now fork around it will ask you about username and password, use root and >>your >>root password. Setup your printer, create a quo and you should be ok. Set the >>printer as default (but i think it will do that automatically if you only >>have one printer) >> >>Cheers >>Szemir >> >> >>On December 28, 2005 07:34, Michael Walters wrote: >> >> >>>Hello all, >>> >>>I went to the Quick Browser icon and then to system configuration, and >>>then to Cups and then to open in a terminal. >>> >>>Then the terminal screen showed: >>> >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]/etc/cups$ >>> >>>I then became super user and did the following command: >>> >>>vi cupsd.conf >>> >>>and found that as Root I could read the entire file. >>> >>>I knew I could type "i" and start editing the file, but that would only >>>do harm if I did not know what I was doing, so I did some reading of the >>>comments(in green with # at the start of each line) and configuration >>>lines (in white). >>> >>>The first line I saw in white was: >>> >>>DefaultCharacterset notused >>> >>>The next line in white was >>> >>>ErrorLog /var/log/cups/error_log >>> >>>The next line in white was: >>> >>>LogLevel info >>> >>>and the LogLevel comments are: >>> >>># LogLevel: controls the number of messages logged to the ErrorLog >>>#file and can be one of the following: >>># >>># debug2 Log everything. >>># debug Log almost everything. >>># Log all requests and state changes. >>># warn Log errors and warnings. >>># error Log only errors. >>># none Log nothing. >>> >>>Any way, you get the idea of what I was doing and can do. >>> >>>Any suggestions of where I should look to find out how to get my printer >>>working? It is a canon BJ-200e inkjet printer. >>> >>>Regards, >>> >>>Michael Walters - clug tier two member and new kanotix user >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>clug-talk mailing list >>>[email protected] >>>http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >>>Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >>>**Please remove these lines when replying >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>clug-talk mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >>Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >>**Please remove these lines when replying > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFDs5WGwRXgH3rKGfMRAlBHAJ9RSrFaGYAgqNhBExlIZCVrp5i7MACgmM04 > 2uD7377AHip1XnQQDB+JH9s= > =wev9 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
