printconf issue

[Tom Weston]

That helps. I have been usings cups to configure the printer for sharing. I
don't want to use printconf, but it runs automatically and then reconfigures
the printer w/o prompting. I just want to get printconf to stop doing that.

On 7/24/06, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 14:11 -0400, Tom Weston wrote:
> > I'm running FC5 and have gotten a Samsung ML-2250 laser printer. It
> > prints pretty well with the driver that printconf installs
> > automatically. However I much prefer the printing with the driver that
> > is available from the Samsung web site (it's runs faster, the margins
> > are exactly right, and images are clearer). The Samsung driver is
> > installed by a wizard that comes with the download.
> >
> > The problem is that after I've installed the printer with the Samsung
> > wizard, printconf doesn't recognize it and installs it again (with the
> > suboptimal driver)! So how can I do one the following:
> > (a) Tell printconf to stop trying to autoinstall "new" printers.
> > - or -
> > (b) Prevent cupsd (and whatever other daemons/scripts are invoking
> > printconf) from running printconf at all.
> > - or -
> > (c) get printconf-gui to show the Samsung suppled driver in its drop
> > down box (then I could install the printer with printconf using the
> > good driver).
> Well I am not completely sure but maybe this information will help.
> Do not configure cups printers with printconf, printconf-gui or
> system-config-printer.
> All Cups printers should be configured using the Cups web interface
> (localhost:631)
>
> Cups postscript printdriver files are in the
> directory /usr/share/cups/model
>
> So that is where your updated driver should be I assume.
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