USB printer blues

danny danny.van.elsen at skynet.be
Sat Nov 29 06:45:09 PST 2008


> Unload the USB printer module (rmmod printer.o), or build CUPS with
> the --disable-libusb option.

nope, sadly, doesn't change anything, in either 1.3.9 or 1.4b1.

is there a command line alternative?

> > 3. my main questions are:
> > 3a. where should I be looking for the cause of the USB printer not being recognized by CUPS?
> > 3b. if everything else fails, is there a command line alternative? I mean, the USB printer seems to be recognized by the system, just not by cups. Can I give some lp command, referring to a PPD file perhaps, in order to print something different from an ASCII file?

greetings, Danny.




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