Two issues: one annoying, one confusing

[Brady Adams]

The web interface still allows you to have access to the print drivers  you want to use regardless of who provides them.  Just follow this process:

1. Get the drivers you need for the printer.  I generally get the Windows drivers since those are generally the most tuned and best supported.
2. After extracting the files you downloaded, copy the PPD file to the directory /usr/share/cups/model.  This may be different based on your distribution of Linux, but this is the directory Redhat uses for its Enterprise editions as well as Fedora.
3. Restart the CUPS daemon ("service cups restart" in Redhat).
4. Now login to your web interface.  Go through the add printer process and you will see the manufacturer listed for the driver(s) you just added.  Once you choose that, the model of the printer(s) you are adding will be listed.

Do your best not to use the system-config-printer utility.  it breaks a whole lot more than it fixes.

Brady

> Michael Sweet said the following on 01/31/2006 01:09 PM:
>
> > Rob Tanner wrote:
> >
> >> 2.  I'm running the version of CUPS (v1.1.23) that comes bundled with
> >> Fedora Core and I'm using the system-config-printer command and the
> >> GUI it brings up to add new printers, setup the drivers, etc.
> >> Whenever I do that, I loose the ability to access the web interface
> >> from my workstation and in order to get access back, I have to
> >> manually edit the cupsd.conf file and add back in a Listen
> >> <hostname>:631 option so it can be accessed by other than localhost
> >> (no, I do not delete the Listen 127.0.01:631 line).  What do I do to
> >> keep that from happening all the time.
> >
> >
> > Don't use system-config-printer, but instead use the web interface
> > to add your printers.
> >
> But using the web interface means I don't have access to the drivers
> tailored for the printer model (the web interface gives you only 3 CUPS
> choices as opposed to printer model specif foomatic drivers).  Doesn't
> that constitute something of a downside to using the web interface to
> add new printers?
>
>
> --
>
> Rob Tanner
> UNIX Services Manager
> Linfield College, McMinnville OR
>