CUPS printer drivers -

[Jonathan Underwood]

On 22/06/06, Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net> wrote:
>                     printers I am using.  And in each case, when I
>                     finally got around to switching to KDE I have been
>                     able to restore my printers to operation.  Gnome
>                     might accomplish the same thing but I rarely use
>                     either one and have not tried it.  So I guess my
>                     question is why doesn't CUPS Admin. provide the same
>                     driver list?  This seems to be a problem manifest
>                     only in the last couple of months ...  In the past
>                     I've been able to set up with CUPS alone.
>

system-config-printer is quite broken - using the cups web interface
tool for configuration has been more succesful for me (go to
localhost:631 in a web browser).