On Sun, 12 Jan 2014 11:13:22 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard <[email protected]> dijo:
> I thought everything was restored yesterday, but firefox does not > show any >printers, only 'print to file' when I want to print a page. None of the >menus seems to have an item that lets me point firefox to the available >printers. My web searches, 'how to print from firefox,' 'adding >printers to firefox,' and similar do not show anything relevant. > > What am I not seeing here? A couple years ago I needed to switch my old computer from Jaunty to Debian, and wanted to save time installing printers. This was especially important to me because I have half a dozen printers in the house, each with two or three different drivers for various purposes. I asked on the CUPS listserve and got an answer, copied and pasted below: ------- On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:08:59 -0800 Helge Blischke <[email protected]> dijo: > John Jason Jordan wrote: > > > Can I migrate the printers installed in Jaunty to a new, fresh > > install of Debian testing (Squeeze)? > > > > Specifically, I have eight printers installed in Jaunty for a total > > of four laser printers that I own. I have so many laser printers > > because I do short run textbook publishing. Getting all these > > drivers installed and tweaked was no small task. > > > > When I installed Debian testing I bought a brand new hard disk for > > my laptop. Then I installed the old Jaunty hard drive in a USB > > enclosure. I boot to Debian, but everything on my Jaunty hard disk > > is a click and drag away. > > > > It would be awesome if I could find a folder with my printers in it > > on my Jaunty hard disk and drag it to the Debian hard disk. Is this > > possible? If so, how? > > You could try the following steps: > > (1) make shure your new installation has at least all the filters and > backends of your old CUPS installation. If not, install the missing > ones (maybe it is sufficient to copy the binaries over, but there is > no guarantee). > (2) stop the running CUPS > (3) copy your old /etc/cups/printers.conf to the new installation > (4) copy the complete contents of your old /etc/cups/ppd directory to > the new installation > (5) start your new CUPS > (6) see what happens. > > It might be that you need to do some tweaking afterwards, but the > bulk of your old work should have been retained. Helge, A thousand thanks. That worked perfectly. It saved me hours of work. I did have a couple issues: 1) I have no idea what "all the filters and backends" refers to. I ignored the instruction and apparently suffered no evil in doing so. 2) I had to google to find out that you stop cups by changing to /etc/init.d/cups/ and issuing the command ./cups stop, and start again by the command ./cups start. I add that information here in case someone else as dumb as me reads this thread in the future. Thanks again! cups mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/cups _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
