[TriLUG] Re: RedHat 9 and cups

[Rick DeNatale]

I can't help, but I can emphasize. I've managed to get a variety of
network laster printers set up through CUPS, and have a Deskjet hooked
to a Linux box to which I can print from both Windoze and Macintosh
machines on the LAN, I'm not sure I could reproduce the feat easily.

+1 for using the CUPS http interface.

My most frustrating experience with printing on Linux so far was
having something changed (probably during an update to Evolution)
which caused printing to my laser printer from apps which use the
gnome print dialog to fail silently. The job got queued, and dequeued,
but nothing ever printed. Even printing to a PDF file produced a file
which could be viewed in xpdf, but did the same thing when I printed
it from there.

It took a couple of weeks before a comment someone else made on a
mailing list made me realize that the page size was defaulting to A4.
Manually changing it to US Letter made printing from those apps work.
It then took me something like a month to find out where the defaults
were actually stored,
/usr/share/libgnomeprint/2.2.1.3/printers/GENERIC.xml
and /usr/share/libgnomeprint/2.2.1.3/printers/PDF-WRITER.xml and then
how to spell USLetter.  I STILL haven't been able to figure out why
gnome print isn't able to get the list of my real printers from CUPS
so that it can show me something other than generic postscript printer
and pdf file as print targets.