CUPS printer drivers -

[Bob Goodwin]

Tim wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 01:43 +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
>   
>> system-config-printer is quite broken
>>     
>
> In general, I would agree.  And just why does it sit there churning for
> a minute or so, when you try to save a configuration?
>
> However,
>
>   
>> using the cups web interface tool for configuration has been more
>> succesful for me (go to localhost:631 in a web browser).
>>     
>
> I found with some HP inkjet printer that I ended up not being able to
> print from web browsers, if I set things up that way.  It'd bomb out
> with a useless error message (you might want to check why it aborted).
> Though, when set up via the Gnome tool, all was well.
>
> Also, I noticed the difference between the test pages between being set
> up one way or the other.  The CUPS test page you'd get once set up via
> the Gnome tool, however you initiated printing the test page (via that
> tool, or the CUPS local webserver), had finer detail in the colours and
> grayscales, and was a slightly different sized page.
>   

        I would like to make the complete list of drivers as obtained
        from KDE, and probably Gnome, available to the Cups Admin
        process.  I began looking through the cups files last evening
        but have not found where they are filed yet?  I always use cups
        but have found that I must set the driver from KDE.

        After following that routine I was able to print an 83 page
        "pool Maintenance" book yesterday using both printers
        simultaneously,  each printing a group of different pages.  The
        HP6840 is significantly faster than the Epson C62, perhaps by a
        factor of two in b&w anyway!  I could not see any difference in
        the printing that resulted, both looked perfect to me.

        Any suggestion on how to make the complete driver list available
        to cups admin?  Where is it?

        Thanks.

        Bob Goodwin