Steve White wrote:
Hi,
I’m using Scientific Linux 5, and trying to connect to our IPP printers
(or printer server, I’m not sure). The only mechanism provided by this
distribution for Gnome printer configuration is system-config-printer.
I finally figured out how to specify a default printer (by editing
/etc/cups/client.conf
to contain one line
ServerName my_IPP_servername
But how to do this from the Gnome GUI?
(My collegue who uses an identical system, but with KDE, says it was
effortless for him...but he can't remember what he did.)
That's one of the symptoms of why I don't use gnome though in early
releases, I expected that once the stability problems were resolved I
would. I't being dumbed down to what the developers think users what.
Not this user, I want to be able to configure stuff effortlessly,
In KDE, I think one can (sort of) do it from the the print dialogue
invoked from any _KDE_ application:
Expand Options
choose System Options
choose General
Select "Defaults to last printer used in application."
Note, beside the printer drop-down at the top of the print dialogue is a
"properties" button, In there, one can configure any of the stuff in the
printer's ppd. Couldn't get any of that last time I tried to use Gnome
seriously.
In the Mozilla family one can specify a custom print command, the
default's lpr. The kprinter command works well, gets the KDE print dialogue.
In Control Centre (kcontrol command, I couldn't find it in my broken
menus), choose preipherals, printers, properties, instances and mark the
default.
In Gnome, use of the lpoptions command in a gnome terminal might work.
It creates/maintains users' .lpoptions file. Here's mine:
08:29 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat .lpoptions
Default Kyocera Smoothing=None
Dest Laserjet
Special Advanced%20Faxing%20Tool%20(ksendfax)
Special Mail%20PDF%20File
Special Print%20to%20File%20(PDF)
Special Print%20to%20File%20(PostScript)
Special Send%20to%20Fax
08:29 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$
I talked to the developers of system-config-printer: they say this utility
is only for configuration of CUPS servers. I don't have access to our
fileserver, and it fails badly and confusedly to do anything useful.
I also couldn't get it to connect to the printers directly.
I also tried setting up my system to be a CUPS server, and could make
CUPS printers that seemed to see our networked printers, but never had
any luck actually printing to them (the jobs would just hang in the
queue, allthough the printers were all activated...the logs said something
about "Unable to connect to printer").
--
Cheers
John
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