I bought a Samsung ML-2510 laser printer the other day, and when installing using CUPS, I discovered that CUPS wasn't letting me add local printers of any kind. After a fashion I discovered that this is because the available printing backends in CUPS are determined by which files are present in /usr/lib/cups/backend. So one can add a missing backend by copying the missing backend from /usr/lib/cups/backend-available to /usr/lib/cups/backend.
In Debian, one can also fix this by running dpkg-reconfigure cups, and selecting the appropriate backends there. The reason for this is explained by debconf: there are some circumstances in which selecting backends that you don't have the hardware for can hang your machine. --Ken -- Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory. Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology. http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/
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