Is it possible to print?

[Rainer Fischer]

The answer upon the subject´s question is: YES!
I configured two printers (one local HP Deskjet 690C and
one remote via SAMBA HP Laserjet 1100).

Here is my /etc/cups/printers.conf:

# Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.2.1
# Written by cupsd on 2006-07-28 13:02
<Printer HP1100>
Info HP Laserjet 1100
Location D1000
DeviceURI smb://wir/d1000/HP1100
State Idle
StateTime 1154084492
Accepting Yes
Shared Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
OpPolicy default
ErrorPolicy stop-printer
</Printer>
#
<Printer hp_par_DESKJET_690C>
Info HP DESKJET_690C
Location Local Printer
DeviceURI hp:/par/DESKJET_690C?device=/dev/parport0
State Idle
StateTime 1153488645
Accepting Yes
Shared Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
OpPolicy default
ErrorPolicy stop-printer
</Printer>

Nevertheless nothing happens on clicking
"Print Dialog" in the accessories menu, and
both printers are shown by name "unknown"
in the "Print Manager" menu item.

BTW: after installing the latest nVIDIA graphics driver
(1.0-8762) from the nVIDIA download site,
the earlier nvidia menu item (which came with the
Xubuntu nvidia driver nv) cannot be used further.

So let´s wait for xfce updates coming with
new Xubuntu packages ;-)).

Rainer


On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 13:06:47 +0200, Nikolas Arend wrote:

>Rainer Fischer wrote:
>> On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 21:04:50 -0400, Pierre Thibault wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> Nikolas Arend a écrit :
>>>     
>>>> One last shot in the dark... Nobody answered my question yet whether 
>>>> one of you installed xfce on your own (e.g. from source) or just used 
>>>> theversion shipping with Xubuntu.
>>>>       
>>
>>   
>>> I am using the version from Xubuntu.
>>>     
>>
>> I am using the version given by Xubuntu, too.
>>   
>Assuming that the reason is not your printer/CUPS installation, I'd 
>suggest that you upgrade xfce if there are newer Xubuntu packages 
>available. If not you can try building xfce yourself from svn (probably 
>not worth the effort and maybe not exactly recommended for 
>"unexperienced" users).
>As an alternative, there are other printing frontends for CUPS 
>available, like gtklp (gtklp.sourceforge.net), which I like very much 
>since it offers virtually all ppd-file options of a printer. You can't 
>use it with mousepad, though.
>
>Nick.
>
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