printer configuration on F17 ???

[fred smith]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:13:13AM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 06/21/2012 11:08 AM, fred smith wrote:
> > yeah. done. also installed some foomatic things and then when I chose
> > add printer it thought for a couple of minutes and found the printer
> > out on the LAN. it assigned the correct (or at least "A" correct)
> > driver to it and voila.
> >
> > one odd thing, there doesn't seem to be any way to change printer
> > settings, resolution, etc. weird.
> >
> > Ah. running system-config-printer (which I had to manually install) lets
> > me change resolution and numerous other things. strange that the add-printer
> > app doesn't.
> >
> > well, at least it's now working. thanks for your patience, Ed!
> 
> I've found the "best" way to alter printer settings is to use the browser and go to...
> 
> http://localhost:631/
> 
> And administer printer settings from there.....
> 
> Welcome.....

yeah, I tried that too. but it didn't offer me a suitable printer driver,
and whatever I tried caused the printer to wake up but not to print.
of course, that was beforoe I thought to  install the foomatic pkgs,
so maybe that's the reason it didn't work.

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