GNOME and Printers

Jamie LaRue yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
11 Nov 2002 15:55:36 -0700


Printtool caused me no end of troubles, don't even go there! Use cups,
instead.
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/solutions/ydl_general/cups_long.shtml

On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 12:15, Rob wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I've got YDL 2.3 on my G3 tower, and I'm having trouble figuring out 
> how to get my USB HP Deskjet 940 to work. I've tried in KDE, which has 
> a fairly straight forward Printer Wizard, with no luck (it tells me I 
> don't have the requisite drivers or permissions...eek).
> 
> I looked at the UDL How To pages, and was able to do all the instructed 
> activities, except to get printtool to work. when I enter the command 
> into a terminal, it says that the command cannot be found. How can I 
> get this tool, or enable it?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Rob
> 
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