Hello, On Mar 9 22:17 Magnus Boman wrote (shortened): > On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 11:51 +0100, Johannes Meixner wrote: > > > > How often does a home user set up a printer? > > When it comes to a USB printer, how about every time it's > disconnected/connected?? I've got a HP Photosmart printer at home. If I > configure it (with root), then I can print. But if I turn it off and > then back on, cups will show it as online, but when I print to it, > nothing will happen.
A bug somewhere in your hardware, in USB or in HPLIP or whatever. A bug must be fixed where it is and not by a workaround via re-setup every time the hardware is disconnected/connected. For the resulting pronblems with such a re-setup, see the previous mails in this thread. > > A normal user can change and store his own printer specific > > settings in his ~/.lpoptions (CUPS 1.1) or ~/.cups/lpoptions > > (CUPS 1.2) file usually via the various printing dialog tools > > (kprinter, gtklp, xpp, lpoptions) but not via the various > > printer setup tools (which do the admin-related stuff). > > Will a normal user know about these files? I wrote "via the various printing dialog tools". If a normal user does not know how to use the printing dialog tools, there is something to do on the desktop/application layer. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
