problems adding new printer

[Anne Wilson]

On 23/01/12 20:29, Neal Becker wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> 
>> On 23/01/12 15:06, Neal Becker wrote:
>>> I was so happy to see, maybe 1 year back, that fedora/kde had finally
>>> progressed to the point that when I tried to add my home printer it was
>>> autodetected, and I didn't have to specify the make, model, etc.
>>>
>>> Not any more.  Seems pretty broken now.
>>>
>>> I seem to have 3 ways to try to add a printer.  I can use system settings
>>> (kde).
>>> This, unlike the other ways, actually works.  But it doesn't detect my
>>> printer, and I do need to select make/model etc.
>>>
>>> The other two ways I find by opening application launcher and search for
>>> 'print' which shows 2 items, 1 called 'printer configuration' and 1 called
>>> 'printing'.
>>> Neither of them work at all.  The first gives me
>>> 'cups-authorization-cancelled' when I try to add a new printer, without
>>> having ever asked for any
>>> authorization.  (This seems to be just another way to get to the kde printer
>>> config dialog, but a broken one).  The other seems like a gnome version. 
>>> IIRC this one also fails but later in the process.
>>>
>> Adding a printer through the CUPS page (localhost:631) has always
>> required you to be root.  Did you go to the Admin page and log in as
>> root?  In the past I found that it is often best to set up the printer
>> on this interface before doing anything else, but then I've used hplip
>> to set up mine for the past 3 years, so things could be different now.
>>
>> Then again, have you tried system-config-printer?
>>
>> Other than that, it might help if you gave us a clue what printer you
>> are trying to add, in case there are any specifics.
>>
>> Anne
> 
> I'm not particularly looking for help here in setting up my printer.  I'm 
> concerned for the poor fedora noob, who will find the process pretty much 
> broken.
> 
I've not found it so, but if you have, please find out what went wrong
and document it.  That's more help to a newbie than simply saying it's
broken.

Anne
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