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mangeli
05-15-2002, 12:39 PM
Woot! Woot!! Woot!!!

I'm printing in linux!! Woot!! Woot!!

Ok, so heres the thing....

Running Slackware 8.0, on a dual PIII-650 box, networked printer and kde 3.0 .

I downloaded the Slackware CUPS Package from http://www.linuxpackages.net and I installed that. Once I had the cups daemon running (/usr/sbin/cupsd &) I went to the printer manager in KDE's control panel and I selected CUPS as my Print System. Then clicked the button to add a new printer. I chose network (cause thats how I am connected to it!) added the info and walalala!! I'm printing in Linux. Didn't use a driver, just using the raw post script. Now if I can do this at home and get my printer/scanner/copier thing that my wife bought working properly (its usb, and if I can't make it scan, then there's no point!) then I think I will boot in to linux for a while...

mdwatts
05-16-2002, 06:38 PM
I know how you feel.

When I installed the latest version of Caldera (Workstation 3.1.1), I decided to configure our network printers.

KDE Control Center and a few clicks later and I had the ip adddress entered and the Lexmark T614 configured.

Now ALL my apps can print.

mangeli
05-16-2002, 08:42 PM
Yep. Now I'm having a problem letting my windows boxes print to it (I have samba set up correctly...) once I get that done...