[ale] Debian Woody CUPS Printing Nightmare

[James Sumners]

The gnome-print system supposedly has the best printer support for Canon
printers. I, personally, have an HP printer and can not really testify to this.
Installing the gnome-print and kde-cups packages should give you enough support
to print correctly.

On 15 Nov 2003 22:05:55 -0500
Jeff Hubbs <hbbs at comcast.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 17:28, Jim Philips wrote:
> > On Saturday 15 November 2003 05:11 pm, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> > > James -
> > >
> > > That got rid of the error when printing from kword but the printer still
> > > doesn't move or make a sound.  Test pages and lpr jobs have no effect,
> > > but the jobs end as normal.  Time to suspect a bad printer?
> > >
> > > - Jeff
> > 
> > Where did you get your printer drivers? Did you install gnome-print? Or did 
> > you use a driver that came with your distro?
> 
> Initially, I went with what Debian Woody originally gave me, but I
> eventually pulled in the gimp-print driver as recommended by
> linuxprinting.org.  It didn't make any difference.  
> 
> I know nothing of gnome print - just how many parts of a print system
> does one have to go find and install in Debian? :-/
> 
> - Jeff
> 
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