[7753] in testers
Re: Athena 10 printer learnings
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Chen)
Mon Oct 20 18:18:16 2008
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:17:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kevin Chen <kchen@MIT.EDU>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
cc: athena10@mit.edu, testers@mit.edu, broder@mit.edu
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On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Alex T Prengel wrote:
(Disclaimer -- I'm sitting at a gutsy machine right now, and not an Athena
10 or a hardy machine, but most of these comments likely still apply)
> 4. To configure additional printers for CUPS printing, you need to sudo and
> use system-config-printer to add a printer.
From the gnome-panel, System->Administration->Printing may be more
intuitive. This also works on some other versions of Ubuntu that don't
have a system-config-printer command.
> The default Device URI it sets up will be wrong. You need to replace it
> with one like this: lpd://mulch.mit.edu/leander (mulch.mit.edu name is
> the name of the print server which can be found from hesinfo <name> pcap
> (<name> is the printer name, which should also go last on the lpd:...
> line).
This would be equivalent to the "LPD/LPR Host or Printer option", so while
it's necessary to know the print server and the queue name, it's not
necessary to specifically use the URI.
> Note that this assumes printers known to our print servers, which I
> understand are the only ones that are currently enabled. I believe it's
> necessary to stop and restart the cups server for this to take effect
> (/etc/init.d/cupsys stop followed by /etc/init.d/cupsys start).
In my experience, this isn't necessary, at least, not using the GUI tool,
which appears to be the same thing.
> After this you should see the printer configured added to the printer
> pick list of applications that use CUPS. I saw no way to select a
> default printer using system-config-printer
There's a "Make Default" button.
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Kevin Chen
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