Jaunty: How to install a USB printer?

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 14 May 2009, marc wrote:
>Gene Heskett said:
>> On Thursday 14 May 2009, Ric Moore wrote:
>>>On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 14:37 +0300, Willy Hamra wrote:
>>>> 2009/5/9 Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com>:
>>>> > On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 08:15 +0000, marc wrote:
>>>> >> Ric Moore said:
>>>> >> > But this may shed some light... When I worked at RedHat, I could
>>>> >> > never get my Ex's printer to work. Darn embarrassing to be on the
>>>> >> > Help Desk fixing everyone elses printers. We had one whizbang
>>>> >> > that fired up emacs, had ten terminals with code pouring down the
>>>> >> > screens like the matrix. Impressed me! Then he started narrowing
>>>> >> > down the problem to samba not being configured correctly. I'm
>>>> >> > going she doesn't NEED Samba and I ripped it out. The printer
>>>> >> > worked right off. Samba was trying to network a printer that
>>>> >> > hadn't been configured correctly for the system. The cart before
>>>> >> > the horse, so to speak. You can rip out Samba, after saving
>>>> >> > config files if you need it or rip it out for good if you don't
>>>> >> > need it. One less thing in the way.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> I'll give that a spin. Thanks.
>>>> >
>>>> > Let us know how it works. I later re-installed Samba on her machine
>>>> > and it picked up on the local printer it found and configured it for
>>>> > use easily. I guess it needs to be configured locally before the
>>>> > install of samba. It would be interesting if this was indeed the
>>>> > case. Good Luck! Ric
>>>>
>>>> my samsung ML-1610 works out of the box in jaunty, it got recognized
>>>> right away and auto-configured while installing jaunty alpha-3 or 4,
>>>> cant remember from an alternate CD. and in all previous versions,
>>>> using http://localhost:631 always opens up a CUSP page, and the
>>>> printer can always be found by the detect new printer functionality,
>>>> which configures the printer way easier than add a new printer. and
>>>> yes, my printer is USB as well.
>>>> can you make sure the printer is detected by the system? i'm no lspci
>>>> or lsusb or whatever expert, but kinfocenter/USB should point you in
>>>> the right direction if the printer is seen or not.
>>>
>>>Samba will steal it and put permissions to it. I know that one from hard
>>>experience as I noted. I'd really like to know how this turns out. :)
>>
>> That secret is to remove an printers section in the smb.conf.  Nuke it
>> totally.  In all machines.
>
>We have a winnner!
>
>All I did was nuke the [printers] section in smb.comf and restart samba.
>Then, when I ran system-config-printer, it found it and installed it.
>
>I would love to test it, but the yellow ink pot is now dry, and with
>these KDE4-style printers (i.e. huge regressions) the thing will not
>print until I install a new one... even though there is a separate black-
>only pot, which is full and all that is needed.

So does my now elderly epson C82, but it will not use the last 5% or so of a 
cartridge since running it dry may total the head.so it blinks the light and 
won't print till I run mtink and find out which cart of the 4 is nearly dry.  
But when its working, I can put good paper in it and sell the prints just as 
if I made them in a darkroom, which I also have extensive experience doing.  
I'm gonna miss that printer when it finally signs off.  20+ carts per color, 
and 2 or 3 hundred reams of paper and its still munching right along.

So don't blame it on kde4 style printers, its all of them AFAIK.  This epson 
is nearly a decade old, and the Stylus Pro in front of it was the same way in 
1994.

>I'll post an update when I can find some new ink!

Great, I'll be lurking.

>--
>Best,
>Marc


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