Printers :: Linux printing help for a Windows user

Quote (john.martzouco @ Dec. 30 2007,18:53)

Quote (jpeters @ Dec. 30 2007,17:57)

Beaver, OO, etc.,

What is OO please?

Thanks.

Open Office; it worked by default after setting up with apsfilter.

I seem to recall you mentioned you were using a hp all-in-one printer. If so, then you can use the command "hp-info" to list plenty of details about your printer including the full hp uri and the cups printer name. There are also a bunch of other useful "hp-xxx" commands you can find in /opt/hplip/bin (or maybe ../sbin).

I'm not in front of my dsl desktop at the moment, but I thought the info file mentioned how to print from firefox, openoffice, etc?

Quote (Juanito @ Dec. 31 2007,05:38)

I'm not in front of my dsl desktop at the moment, but I thought the info file mentioned how to print from firefox, openoffice, etc?

Firefox has it's own printer defaults set in "about:config" The defaults that work for ted, bash, OO, etc., don't work with FF (at least they haven't with my online samba setup through apsfilter).

Another option for consideration... Use print to file.
Many times, I just want to print something and I don't have my printer online, or daemon started, or paper loaded, etc, etc. I just don't want to be interrupted from what I am doing.

So now with my 4.x setup, I always print to file. Then when I am ready to print. I just drag-n-drop my print files over my printer icon and do my printing in batches.

Thanks for the help gents, I've made progress.

The command

Code Sample

lpoptions -d printer-name

mentioned in the linked page only has to be executed once. I found a Set As Default button on the CUPS printer page (http://localhost:631/printers/) and it executed the command for me... no console needed for that one.

To make GIMP 1.2 print correctly after this, the -o raw printing option needs to be changed to -o raster in GIMP's printing dialog page.

I haven't installed Open Office yet, will soon enough.

@Juanito,

I think I'd need to append the hp path to be able to use any of those hp-xxx commands. I tried hp-info while pwd in it's directory, but it coughed up a polite error message about missing bits.

Also, it would be super helpful if the http://localhost:631 page were there. If only it hosted links to the sub-pages (admin, printers, jobs etc), it would make managing the printers a lot easier. I'll eventually write one up for myself, if you like, I can post it.

Much thanks,
John

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