Nightmare printing to Windows printers

[Lee H.]

After two days of googling, studying various pages and how-tos, I've
reached an impasse.

I have two printers on my XP machine and I am now able to use them with
my Ubuntu machine with drivers recommended by
http://www.linuxprinting.org/

Sort of!

1.  Lexmark Z23, USB, driver=lxm3200 (tweaked).  Ubuntu can see it and
wake it up, but it doesn't attempt to print anything--it just spits out
a blank sheet of paper.

2.  Samsung ML-1440, USB, driver=gdi, set to default.  Ubuntu can use it
and I can print out all the test pages I want, but I can't print from
applications, e.g:  I can create a document in Open Office and hit print
but absolutely nothing happens.

In both cases, the printer properties will not retain information--I
have to re-enter username and password for each and every item I try to
print, even successive test pages.

I've browsed throught cups.conf, but haven't noticed anything I would
change without advice to do so.

As an aside, I read about browsing to  localhost:631  to access CUPS to
manage printers, but it keeps asking me for a username and password that
I've never had the opportunity to configure.  It won't accept either of
the usernames and passwords that I use.

Thanks again!

-- 

Lee H. in beautiful Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada!


You WILL be assimilated!

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