How to configure printer in Kubuntu 8.10

Lindsay Mathieson lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com
Wed Nov 26 13:04:48 UTC 2008


On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:52:12 pm Art Alexion wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Lindsay Mathieson
>
> <lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Perhaps the KDE/Ubuntu team is focusing more on newer hardware these
> > days? I remember being quite surprised that my usb connected printer
> > (Samsung ML-2010) was silently auto detected and configured perfectly
> > without me ever needing to do a thing. It even got the model number
> > right.
>
> I think the credit is probably deserved by the CUPS developers more
> than distro or desktop environment developers.  The former develop the
> soul of the printing system, while the latter just dress her up.
>


Ah, well good job whoever did it. I remember the horrors of configuring 
printers a few years ago :(

-- 
Lindsay
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