printing (finally some success)

[Paul Higgins]

Thanks for the advice.  I'm currently using KDE rather than Gnome, but your 
points are well taken.  Basically, I missed a couple of settings in K Menu > 
Control Center > Peripherals > Printers.  In the KDE print wizard, you need 
to select "other printer type" under "backend selection".  The printer 
address can be entered there as <lpd://[IP address]/>.  After that it was a 
simple matter of selecting the proper driver for my printer.

There is one confusing thing about the CUPS print system that I haven't 
figured out yet.  I can make changes to the print system using the KDE 
Control Center, but if I use CUPS in a browser (the CUPS address is 
<http://localhost:631/>), the browser just hangs when I select "manage 
printers".  My Epson 1520 never actually appears in a browser window.  By 
using a terminal, I can see that running CUPS from a browser also starts up 
several processes (cupsd, printers.cgi) that use up a lot of processor power 
(basically all of it) and these continue to run until reboot (or until they 
are stopped by using the kill command).  I don't know what's up with that.  
However, CUPS from Control Center does work, so I guess I'll just forget 
about accessing it from a browser.

-PRH

On Wednesday 07 June 2006 09:03, Derick Centeno wrote:
> Before you boot into Linux make sure all the printers are connected
> properly and on.
>
> Within the Gnome environment do the following:
> Select the YDL symbol then look for System Settings, and select
> Printing.
> A dialog box will appear asking you to enter your root password (if
> your Linux was set up well there should be a password for root which is
> different from any password assigned to any user -- even if you are the
> only user.).
>
> After the above has been completed the Printer Configuration interface
> appears.  You will note various tabs which you can open and see what
> settings need to be changed or refined so that you can make the
> appropriate settings.  If you select the tab Queue type, you will
> notice a pop-up.  Click upon that pop-up which initially appears as
> local .... something or other, and you'll find other selections
> enabling to configure any networked printers according to their
> respective networking parameters/requirements.
>
> That should be it.
>
> Good luck...
>
> On Jun 7, 2006, at 1:19 AM, Paul Higgins wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm having a heck of a time getting printing set up in YDL (4.0.1).
> > I'm not
> > really new to CUPS, since it's been a part of OS X for a while now,
> > and I've
> > been using the Gimp-Print package for OS X for a long time.  However,
> > I can't
> > seem to get my Epson printer to work in YDL.
> >
> > My Epson 1520 has a network card installed, and I have all the IP
> > address
> > information, etc.  I know in OS X I had to set the queue to lp to get
> > it to
> > work, but I can't find the same settings in YDL.
> >
> > Any ideas?