Slackware 13 printer setup

siawash · 05-04-2010, 06:31 AM

Hello, I only see two options in KDE. System settings which shows nothing relating to printing and Office Org printer administration.

In the latter Office org printer admin shows "generic printer"...

My printer is HP 5P. and I choose the option 5P/MP.

Then next step asks me to: enter a command line for the appropriate device. I don't know what the appropriate command is. Can anyone help here?

I leave it empty and click next. It shows the 5P/MP is now listed along with generic. I make it default and send a print command resulting in "error while printing"...

Alternatively is there a better way to doing this on terminal.?

brianL · 05-04-2010, 06:36 AM

Click on this:
http://localhost:631
It brings up the CUPS admin. interface.

Ah, forgot something. Run this, in the terminal as root, first:

Code:

chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.cups
/etc/rc.d/rc.cups start

siawash · 05-04-2010, 07:14 AM

Thanks BrianL. That was excellent!

problem sorted!

brianL · 05-04-2010, 07:16 AM

They're separate commands. Try this:

Code:

chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.cups && /etc/rc.d/rc.cups start