Printer configuration

[Al Bogner]

Am So, 20 Mär 2011 23:03:40 CET schrieb markus.hoenicka at mhoenicka.de:

> Al Bogner writes:
>  > Maybe it is not XFCE related, but at least there are few entries
>  > in the XFCE menu for the printer. Can everything be setup for a
>  > printer with the XFCE menu and Xubuntu or are there other things
>  > necessary outside of XFCE? A link to read how to setup a printer
>  > with Xubuntu is welcome. I have a working setup with Opensuse and
>  > yast, but now I am very unsure, what is necessary with Xubuntu.
> 
> This probably depends on which printer system is used by Xubuntu. Here
> on FreeBSD I've set up CUPS,

Xubuntu uses cups too

dpkg -l | grep -i cups | cut -c1-67
ii  bluez-cups                                           4.69-0ubun
ii  cups                                                 1.4.4-6ubu
ii  cups-bsd                                             1.4.4-6ubu
ii  cups-client                                          1.4.4-6ubu
ii  cups-common                                          1.4.4-6ubu
ii  cups-driver-gutenprint                               5.2.6-0ubu
ii  cups-ppdc                                            1.4.4-6ubu
ii  ghostscript-cups                                     8.71.dfsg.
ii  hplip-cups                                           3.10.6-1ub
ii  libcups2                                             1.4.4-6ubu
ii  libcupscgi1                                          1.4.4-6ubu
ii  libcupsdriver1                                       1.4.4-6ubu
ii  libcupsimage2                                        1.4.4-6ubu
ii  libcupsmime1                                         1.4.4-6ubu
ii  libcupsppdc1                                         1.4.4-6ubu
ii  libgnomecups1.0-1                                    0.2.3-3bui
ii  python-cups                                          1.9.51-0ub
ii  python-cupshelpers   

http://localhost:631/ works
Starting here I found http://www.cups.org/ppd.php?L818+I20+T+QLexmark
and somehow I have to tell my machine to use this driver.

If this cannot be done with XFCE, then I will search how to do it, but
if it can be done with XFCE simply, I don't want to make it complicated.

> and I just select the CUPS option in
> XFCE's "Printing System Selection".

Sometimes I hate it to use a German system, since I understand what
"Printing System Selection" means (of course), but I cannot find it in
German at "Einstellungsverwaltung".

> This is about all that XFCE needs
> to know about printing.

Sure? With Suse you have to select the correct printer driver
manually, if the printer is not recognized. BTW I use different
postscript-printers (Samsung and Lexmark) and I like to setup the
default resolution for 150 dpi. The Lexmark E322 is not recognized by
the Opensuse-System, I use E321 or E312 instead.

In a 2nd step, I would like to use these printers on a remote server or
with a wlan-modem (Fritzbox, USB), so I have to find out then, how to
access the printer on the other machine. I think this could be done
with "System - Drucken", but in this case the setup of the printer
server has to be done on the other machine and has nothing to with XFCE.



What I have found in the XFCE-menu is:

Sorry, for the German names, but I don't know the correct menu names in
English:

Einstellungen - Einstellungsverwaltung für XFCE4 - Wechseldatenträger-
und Medieneinstellungen - Drucker: Automatisch ein Programm ausführen,
wenn ein Drucker eingesteckt wird

In short, there is an option, which executes a command, when a printer
is recognized by hal, when it is plugged in.

gnome-printer-add hal://%h


Then there are the menus:

"System - Drucken"
"Zubehör - Druckaufträge verwalten"

But there is nothing which sounds like "Printing System Selection"

Al