Printing headache

[doitashimashite]

I would suggest to do your printer administration over the Cups Web
Interface instead of the default gnome-cups-manager.

First, for better printer drivers, start Synaptic, enable the universe
repository and install the following packages:

cupsys-driver-gimpprint
cupsys-driver-gimpprint-data

Then, open a terminal (right mouse click on desktop) and execute the
following command:

sudo adduser cupsys shadow

This is needed because the printer administration over the web
interface is by default disabled: the cups deamon needs to read
/etc/shadow and therefore the user cupsys should be added to the group
shadow.

Now open a web browser (any web browser) and open the URL

http://localhost:631/

and there you are.

If it doesn't work right away, it should after a reboot.


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doitashimashite