[cups] Canon MG5400 printer, can print from firefox...but from no other application

peter commercials24 at yahoo.de
Wed Jan 13 06:42:53 PST 2016


On 01/13/2016 01:07 PM, Gernot Hassenpflug wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 7:41 PM, peter <commercials24 at yahoo.de> wrote:
>> first:
>> when installing the printer, cups looks for a driver and finds one.
>> since it can print from firefox - can i assume that it got the right driver
>> or is this maybe the problem?
> That would depend on what you installed, no information provided.

i installed cups under debian wheezy, the distro pacakges.
while adding the printer over wlan, cups told me that it was looking for 
a driver. no error.
and as said, it does print with firefox.

where does cups log what driver it used?
>
>> second: is this printer supported at all?
> In gutenprint it is, yes, might be experimental though, so check the
> gutenprint package NEWS file, and the online web pages to see what the
> newest package is.

ah yes, its listed as experimental. crap
> Regards,
> Gernot Hassenpflug
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