Re: driver for a printer connected to a remote computer

[Suvayu Ali]

On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 11:36:23PM +0200, antonio montagnani wrote:
>  A printer connected to a computer on my network is easily discovered
> but
>  driver is generally a Raw generic driver: therefore I cannot use part of
>  options (i.e. printing multiple pages on a single sheet and so on).
>  
>  If I want to have full functionality I have to install driver by hand using
>  system-config-printer.
>  
>  (I am using a Samsung ML-1610 laser printer)
>  
>  Is this behaviour normal?? 
You need to install network printers too.  This means you need to choose
the appropriate drivers to get a complete functionality.  Usually Fedora
ships most printer drivers, if the driver for your printer is missing
please try to file a bugzilla report.

Hope this helps,

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Suvayu

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