Printer Configuration

[Hans Fugal]

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My guess is that it is LPRng unless you see cups somewhere. CUPS takes
quite a divergent road from the traditional BSD methods, which is the
main reason I have not been keen of it until today. This time round I
discovered the cupsys-bsd package in debian (which well may be new)
which lets cups play along as a drop-in replacement instead of its
traditional change-everything modus operandi.

* Chuck Allison [Mon,  5 May 2003 at 19:28 -0600]
<quote>
> Hello Hans,
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> Monday, May 5, 2003, 6:42:44 PM, you wrote:
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> HF> Chuck,
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> HF> It sounds to me like the issue is what is being sent to the printer. =
In
> HF> printing issues narrowing it down like this is a big first step. That=
's
> HF> good. However, if things get off-the-wall frustrating it might be wor=
th
> HF> hooking the printer up to the linux box directly and seeing if that
> HF> works better. In which case it would be samba's fault after all.
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> HF> Have you tried cups? I have personally preferred LPRng in the past, b=
ut
> HF> I did give cups a try again just earlier today and I am more impressed
> HF> with it now than I was last time I tried.
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> To be honest, I was assuming LPRng was in use, but I don't know. I
> used the Printing GUI tool in Gnome to set up the printer, and I don't
> see an option to say whether CUPS or LPRng is being used (or does the
> GUI use one or the other by default?). I know that both printing
> services are installed. How do I go about using cups? Thanks.
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> Best regards,
>  Chuck Allison (The Harmonious CodeSmith)
>  Senior Editor, C/C++ Users Journal
>  cda at freshsources.com
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