problems adding new printer
Neal Becker
ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 24 12:58:42 UTC 2012
Anne Wilson wrote:
> 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
If you read my post, I think you'll see I did try to describe the problem. I
did at least go to the trouble of trying these dialogs again and telling what
happened.
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