Thank,s I don,t know about his but mine had picked up the wrong drivers before the update and you sure helped me. JOE > Tom, > > CUPS, in my very limited opinion, the best for easy and control in setting up an > LPD printer. > > 1) Go into Mandrake Control Center | Hardware | Printer to set up CUPS. It may > ask for CD #1 to load necessary files. > > 2) Click on 'Expert Mode'. I could not set-up my print server in 'Normal Mode'. > > 3) Click on 'Add a printer' > > 4) Click on 'Printer on remote lpd server' > > 5) Fill out printer name and description. Location can be left blank. > > 6) In 'Remote host name', you can either put in the IP address of the NIC in > your printer, or the host name you wish to give it. Keep in mind that if you > give the printer a host name (like 'xerox' or 'printer'), you will need to add > an entry in /etc/hosts with the name and IP address for name resolution over the > network. In the second box, you would give the specific printer's name under the > server. I think that you would leave this blank. > > 7) Pick your printer driver. > > The rest is easy enough. > > Does this sound like what you did? If is what you did before, let me know. I am > sure we can figure it out. > > The key is that the device is supported. What are called 'all-in-wonder' > printers are those that are multi-function units. I have an HP Laserjet 3100 > that must have software support to drive it. I don't use it this way, but if I > did want to use it as a printer in MDK 8.2 or 9.0, there's a specific software > package that comes on the distro CDs for this model. I have no idea how the > others are supported, or if they are. You got it to work once before. It should > now. It wouldn't hurt to make sure that 'foomatic' is also loaded on your > system, and when choosing the drivers for your printer, make sure to choose one > that is a combination of 'CUPS' and 'foomatic'. > > Does this help you any? > > T > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Tom > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 2:40 PM > Subject: [newbie] CUPS Help > > > I have searched the web, read CUPS documents, and still cannnot find the answer. > Or maybe I am over looking it somewhere. > I have a XEROX document centre machine that I am trying to print to. In RH7.3 I > set it up as a unix printer 204.xxx.xxx.xxx with que name lp and it worked just > fine as an lpr printer. (NOT CUPS). > > Tried this in CUPS and it will not work on the Mandrake 9.0 machine. Am I just > ingnorant or do I need to be doing something else in CUPS? > >
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