Printers :: Linux printing help for a Windows user

The printing ones that you have written about i.e. hplip, cups etc.
You can help yourself by doing a forum/wiki/extension search.

Thanks hats,

Got Juanito's extensions up and running.

It took me 4-1/2 hours and I already had the packages downloaded. I've written some scripts to make the process easier for next time and I'll upload them on a thread in Extensions.

Quote (john.martzouco @ Dec. 23 2007,10:10)

It took me 4-1/2 hours and I already had the packages downloaded.

Next time it should only take you about half the time :laugh:

It takes about 5 minutes now. I put the config files into my backup.tar.gz And I created a tar.gz for each of the 2 UCIs that need to be permanent... run one script and they get installed to opt for an HD install.

I've successfully printed test pages from the CUPS browser configuration page. I've also successfully printed a test page from Ted.

I'd like to configure some of the other applications I'm using in DSL to print as well. I've tried a few and each one seems to need its own configuring. I'm hoping that there's a single place where I can set something up and have it affect all the apps.

Can anybody help me with this?

I'd like to print from:
1) Firefox
2) GIMP
3) Beaver
4) my Windows editor running under Wine (Multi-Edit)

I've set up the printing symlinks as detailed in the hplip.info file:

Code Sample

ln -s /opt/hplip/bin/lp /usr/bin/lp
ln -s /opt/hplip/bin/lpr /usr/bin/lpr
ln -s /opt/hplip/bin/lpstat /usr/bin/lpstat
ln -s /opt/hplip/sbin/lpc /usr/sbin/lpc

Much thanks,
John

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