Enable printer wierdness ??

William Case billlinux at rogers.com
Mon Jan 1 17:26:27 UTC 2007


On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 19:08 -0500, William Case wrote:
> Hi Karn and Aaron;
> 
> On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 16:42 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 13:37 -0500, William Case wrote:
> > > Hi;
> 

> > The fact that you indicate that you are chek marking a printer as
> > enabled leads me to believe you are not using the cups web page to
> > configure your printers. Is that true? If so that is a mistake. Use the
> > web interface ans maybe your troubles will disappear.
> 
> I am not using the Cups web page printer setup.  I have tried both.
> George (the system-configure-printer gui) and Cups are supposed to be
> equivalent in FC6.  (system-configure-printer gui is quite a mouthful,
> so I just call the little printer icon George).
> 
> At least that is what I have been told Fedora is striving for.  In any
> case, Cups gives me no joy, in fact it makes things worse by not
> printing anything ( but I haven't looked into why).
> 
Just went through the same exercise using Cups:631 to install my
printer.  Still end up with 'enabled' switching itself off.

> 
> > > 
> > > I am baffled.
> 
> -- 
> Regards Bill, FC6
> 
-- 
Regards Bill




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