Is printing broken in FC5?
M Daniel R Magarzo
4.mdr.magarzo at gmail.com
Tue Aug 29 09:37:10 UTC 2006
Oooppsss! I didn't realize that there were a SOLUTION yet.
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El mar, 29-08-2006 a las 00:53 +0200, M Daniel R Magarzo escribió:
> El dom, 27-08-2006 a las 17:51 -0700, Douglas Phillipson escribió:
> > system-config-printer won't come up. It asks for my password, but the
> > GUI never appears. Anybody else have this problem? I also tried the
> > localhost:631 route and although I can create a printer, I can't print
> > to it (it's a USB hp1020). I'm using the foo2zjs driver which worked
> > fine under FC4. ( http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/)
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Doug P
> >
>
> You should go through Desktop > Administration > Printing (printconf
> command). What I can see in my system is that system-config-printer is
> just a symbolic link to the printconf command. Maybe you've got messed
> up permissions or something... Check this:
>
> [mikhail at Ulises ~]$ ls -l /usr/sbin/printconf
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 354 ago 11 12:38 /usr/sbin/printconf
>
> Apart from that, is your system updated and with no dependency
> conflicts?
>
> Is your printer directly attached to the box or maybe you're talking
> about a network printer?
> It seems that there are some problems in the current stable version of
> CUPS (v.1.2.2) but related with IPP protocol -as far as I know, so
> printing locally shouldn't be affected.
>
> BTW, when you talk about a USB HP 1020 you really mean HP 1120 Deskjet,
> don't you? I don't know much about printer models but 1020 doesn't
> appear into any list I've seen.
>
> More, I think you should be able to configure it with some hp* driver,
> not sure at all but foo2zjs sounds to me some way strange...
>
> Anyway, you should be able to choose a GENERIC printer when configuring,
> and then the Postscript driver would be a good choice..
>
> Cheers
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