Congrats but weird CUPS and non CUPS printing issue

[Richard Morrell]

Congrats on a sterling piece of work - I am deeply in awe of the distro, the
aptitude and steering behind the project and the quality of thought that has
gone into Ubuntu. You deserve a major vote of thanks. Having run a rather large
OpenSource project for 4 yrs I know the pain but also the pride too.

One issue. Installed... Printing.

I must have done 20,000+ Linux installs in my time probably more. Hardly a
spring chicken. Printing is buggered in Ubuntu. It's just not happening. I've
debugged checked everything and CUPS is not properly configured or you have
libraries screwed somewhere.

Tried local CUPS HP Officejets and HP Photojets locally on parallel, remote SMB
printing, remote Unix queues and also a host of Jetdirect 4+ and 4500TN boxes I
have here.

Nothing, nada. No print test jobs even getting to queue. Have also seen 19 mails
and postings about printing and no responses that shed any light.

Any ideas as to when this will happen because apart from that and gtkam in the
base you light my fires.

best

Richard


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Best Wishes

Richard Morrell - Linux Evangelist, Award winning founder and co-author of
SmoothWall, Sponsor of OpenSource development projects.

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