Update: Re: Any way to globally substitute kprinter for gnome-print under Dapper Drake?

[harry wert]

On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 20:08 -0400, harry wert wrote:

> Dapper Drake is performing very well on all my  Desktops and various
> Thinkpad's for some time now- congratulations!
> I use Ubuntu exclusively for my business, including Network printing.
> Now I have a question:  Gnome-printer for most gnome applications does
> not offer a choice of for type of printing; IE, Draft (low
> resolution), Normal )Good quality - slower), or Photo ( High
> resolution), but kprinter does.  I have managed to kludge most gnome
> applications to use kprinter but only by addressing each one
> individually.  I have Goggled and have not been able to find a global
> setting within gnome. I have also checked the Wiki's.  Does anyone
> know a way to force gnome applications to use kprinter? 
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Harry Wert
> Physicist
> 

Answering my own post just in case it may help someone else:  "Does
anyone know a way to force gnome applications to use kprinter?"

Start sudo kprinter in a terminal.

Choose "Add a printer", and install a printer as usual for your
situation.

  o When asked for a Printer Name and Location, I chose Kdraft for a
Draft (low resolution) name,  select desired dpi for resolution, and for
a location "Network". These names can be anything you want and easy to
remember.

  o Select "Finish"

Then:

repeat the process as above and select another name such as
"Knormal" (Normal resolution)

Then:

repeat the process as above and select another name such as
"Kphoto" (High resolution)

Both Gnome and KDE applications will now provide the user with the
kdeprinter printer dialogue when requesting to print from the running
application.

The Network printer used at our company happens to be an HP Design Jet
860C, and protocol used for access is TCP.  HP Direct protocol woks as
well.  IPP  protocol was found to be troublesome and somewhat erratic as
our experience and was abandoned.

Dapper Drake updated daily, is the operating system for all of the above
discussions.

FWIW

Harry Wert
Physicist




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