kudzu interaction with printers w/o standby mode (Canon BJC 255)

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Sat May 1 17:49:27 UTC 2004



Matt Hansen wrote:

>Hi everyone,
>
>The printer I have, a BJC-255SP, can only be either on or off; there's
>no standby mode which some printers have. Therefore, as pointed out by
>Tim Waugh, if the printer is not on when I boot up, kudzu won't detect
>it and the OS (as seen in Hardware Browser) won't know about it and thus
>printing won't work. My point is, if I forget to turn the printer on
>before I boot up then once Fedora is loaded and I suddenly want to print
>something, I'll have to resort to rebooting with the printer on this
>time and then I'm finally able to print..As you can imagine, this is far
>from ideal.. 
>My question is, is there a way to get kudzu to detect the printer once
>the OS is already loaded or will I always have to reboot? 
>
>Thanks for any information.
>  
>
Manually run kudzu

>Regards,
>-Matt
>  
>





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