kudzu interaction with printers w/o standby mode (Canon BJC 255)
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Sun May 2 02:48:32 UTC 2004
Matt Hansen (helios82 at optushome.com.au) said:
> 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..
Do you tell it to remove the printer entry when you boot up with it
powered off?
I'd *guess* that if you turn it on, all you have to do is restart
cups.
Bill
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