Thanks for the advice. I'm currently using KDE rather than Gnome, but your points are well taken. Basically, I missed a couple of settings in K Menu > Control Center > Peripherals > Printers. In the KDE print wizard, you need to select "other printer type" under "backend selection". The printer address can be entered there as <lpd://[IP address]/>. After that it was a simple matter of selecting the proper driver for my printer.
There is one confusing thing about the CUPS print system that I haven't figured out yet. I can make changes to the print system using the KDE Control Center, but if I use CUPS in a browser (the CUPS address is <http://localhost:631/>), the browser just hangs when I select "manage printers". My Epson 1520 never actually appears in a browser window. By using a terminal, I can see that running CUPS from a browser also starts up several processes (cupsd, printers.cgi) that use up a lot of processor power (basically all of it) and these continue to run until reboot (or until they are stopped by using the kill command). I don't know what's up with that. However, CUPS from Control Center does work, so I guess I'll just forget about accessing it from a browser. -PRH On Wednesday 07 June 2006 09:03, Derick Centeno wrote: > Before you boot into Linux make sure all the printers are connected > properly and on. > > Within the Gnome environment do the following: > Select the YDL symbol then look for System Settings, and select > Printing. > A dialog box will appear asking you to enter your root password (if > your Linux was set up well there should be a password for root which is > different from any password assigned to any user -- even if you are the > only user.). > > After the above has been completed the Printer Configuration interface > appears. You will note various tabs which you can open and see what > settings need to be changed or refined so that you can make the > appropriate settings. If you select the tab Queue type, you will > notice a pop-up. Click upon that pop-up which initially appears as > local .... something or other, and you'll find other selections > enabling to configure any networked printers according to their > respective networking parameters/requirements. > > That should be it. > > Good luck... > > On Jun 7, 2006, at 1:19 AM, Paul Higgins wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm having a heck of a time getting printing set up in YDL (4.0.1). > > I'm not > > really new to CUPS, since it's been a part of OS X for a while now, > > and I've > > been using the Gimp-Print package for OS X for a long time. However, > > I can't > > seem to get my Epson printer to work in YDL. > > > > My Epson 1520 has a network card installed, and I have all the IP > > address > > information, etc. I know in OS X I had to set the queue to lp to get > > it to > > work, but I can't find the same settings in YDL. > > > > Any ideas? _______________________________________________ yellowdog-newbie mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie
