[Techtalk] printer help needed

Conni ccovingt at one-eyed-alien.net
Sun Apr 28 11:56:50 EST 2002


On Apr 28, Akkana conjectured:

> No ... the readme is a little unclear, now that I look at it (I'm 

Good to know that it wasn't just me being dumb. :)

> I just ran configure with no arguments.  After I ran make install
> for gimp-print, printconf-gui showed me more printers than it
> had before.  I do see Stylus C40UX on the list.

It's completely not showing up in mine.  I've make installed it, and
printconf-gui still doesn't list it.  Did I get a wonky tarball?  Should I
try the 4.2.0?

> and the linuxprinting.org folks are encouraging its use; it may well be
> the right spooler to use in the long run.  But my experience has been
> that if you just want to get printing working right now with the least
> hassle, LPRng seems easier and requires less research.

If this is the easy way, I don't know if I want to even think about the
hard way ;)

Conni
mounting another assault on the printer

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