On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 09:15:27PM +1000, Joel Mayes wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 02:03:09PM +0200, Mao's Br?derle wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Has anyone had any experience with cups and the deskjet 840c?! As I > > understood from cups.org, this printer is supported, although "mostly". > > When I open "http://localhost:631/admin";, I get "this file > > contains no data". The other sections of this interface are also empty. > > The docs say that I can add a printer with the "lpadmin" command ( > > unfortunately, this wasn't in the .deb package I downloaded.). > > My local user is in the "lpadmin" group and the printer does respond ( > > usually...) to "lpr filename". It only prints the first line of the text, > > though... > > Any tips?! > > > > Thanks. > > > > Eamon Roque > > > I can't help with all the question but did you install cupsys-client, as well > as cupsys, I was looking for the lpstat and lpadim commands mentioned in the > manual to until I took a guess and installed cupsys-client, Voila > > Cheers > > Joel
well, I've got the lpadmin etc... Thanks! now I need to get the printer working... Eamon Roque
