On Tuesday 09 March 2010 05:15:38 Roy Wright wrote: > On Mar 8, 2010, at 10:54 PM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: > > Roy, without being presumptuous, I would say that using D.E. (Desktop > > Environment) tools for printing are not the best because of > > inconsistency in layout and authentication problems. My suggestion is > > to open up your web browser and use localhost:631 in the address bar to > > access CUPS and do it this way. My line of reasoning is that you want > > consistency, which is what you get with this method. Printers > > configured in this way are available in your chosen D.E. In my > > use-case, I have an HP usb printer which can connect via cat 6 cable and > > I also use KDE 4.3. I have configured the printer with CUPS via a web > > browser and have few issues. > > > > I trust that helps. > > > > Damien > > I agree, but am wanting to give kde 4.4.1 a try at handling the printer > just to see if it can do it. Currently the answer is either no or I > haven't found a required configuration change.
I would set it up using CUPS as Damien suggested and then KDE should pick up the settings without any additional effort on your behalf - i.e. I would think that the "server settings" would no longer be disabled (as long as you have listen to more than the default 127.0.0.1 in cupsd.conf). -- Regards, Mick
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