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#6 Re: Question: Setting up printing in Sarge Posted by nathanbullock (68.148.xx.xx) on Wed 9 Nov 2005 at 04:41 I wanted to say thanks for all the help. I have got my printer working from my Debian server and I can print to it from my Fedora Desktop. In case anyone is interested here is what I did: First 'apt-get install printconf', this grabbed a number of packages, and then asked me a couple of questions and tried to auto-configure my printer. The auto-configure said that it didn't recognize my Samsung ML-1740. printconf directed my to linuxprinting.org. Now that cups was installed I went to the web based configuration page with w3m at http://localhost:631/. It didn't seem to have any drivers for my printer. I then found my printer (I actually found the Samsung ML-1710 but they are supposed to be very similar) in the database at http://www.linuxprinting.org/ and went to the cups setup instructions. It said that this printer uses a GDI driver which is part of Ghostscript. Running 'gs -h' told me that the version of ghostscript on my server had this driver compiled in. Next I downloaded the supplied ppd file and put it in /usr/share/cups/model and then restarted CUPS '/etc/init.d/cupsys restart'. Went back to the web configuration, added my printer, (gave it the name 'printer'), selected the Samsung ML-1710 driver. Tried printing a test page from the web interface, it worked. Tried printing a test text file with lp and that worked as well. Now to get it working from other machines. I opened cupsd.conf edited BrowseAddress to 192.168.1.255. Set location /> to Allow from All. Set location /admin> to Allow from All. Went to my Fedora box and added a cups printer at (server:631) /printers/printer. Printed test page. PERFECT. Well almost, it could probably be centered on the page better but I don't feel like fiddling with it. Hopefully I didn't forget any of the steps I took.
I wanted to say thanks for all the help. I have got my printer working from my Debian server and I can print to it from my Fedora Desktop.
In case anyone is interested here is what I did: First 'apt-get install printconf', this grabbed a number of packages, and then asked me a couple of questions and tried to auto-configure my printer. The auto-configure said that it didn't recognize my Samsung ML-1740. printconf directed my to linuxprinting.org.
Now that cups was installed I went to the web based configuration page with w3m at http://localhost:631/. It didn't seem to have any drivers for my printer.
I then found my printer (I actually found the Samsung ML-1710 but they are supposed to be very similar) in the database at http://www.linuxprinting.org/ and went to the cups setup instructions. It said that this printer uses a GDI driver which is part of Ghostscript. Running 'gs -h' told me that the version of ghostscript on my server had this driver compiled in. Next I downloaded the supplied ppd file and put it in /usr/share/cups/model and then restarted CUPS '/etc/init.d/cupsys restart'.
Went back to the web configuration, added my printer, (gave it the name 'printer'), selected the Samsung ML-1710 driver. Tried printing a test page from the web interface, it worked. Tried printing a test text file with lp and that worked as well.
Now to get it working from other machines. I opened cupsd.conf edited BrowseAddress to 192.168.1.255. Set location /> to Allow from All. Set location /admin> to Allow from All.
Went to my Fedora box and added a cups printer at (server:631) /printers/printer. Printed test page. PERFECT. Well almost, it could probably be centered on the page better but I don't feel like fiddling with it.
Hopefully I didn't forget any of the steps I took.
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