How To Add A Printer In Gnome 2.4 (Slackware 9.1)

[carbon-12]

Well the title pretty much sums it up.

Thanx in advance

[bosox79]

Originally posted by carbon-12
Well the title pretty much sums it up.

Thanx in advance

what printer do you have? have you installed a printing system like cups? what printer do you have?

[carbon-12]

I have a Canon S300 (USB) and I have CUPS installed

[bosox79]

Originally posted by carbon-12
I have a Canon S300 (USB) and I have CUPS installed

be warned according to linuxprinting.org your printer is partily supported under Linux see this link http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Canon-S300. So all the functions may not work

as far as setting up your printer goes you can do this
run cupsd (as root) and then you can install using the web-based config at localhost:631

if you need more detailed info look at this http://www.linuxprinting.org/cups-doc.html

keep us posted on your progress :D

[MMYoung]

I had a problem with CUPS on Slackware 9.1 so I used apsfilter to set up my Epson 870 instead. This way you can print through lpr, even in X.

Might have been my overall inexperience with manually setting up printers with CUPS, but I could never get anything to print from OpenOffice or get an email/webpage to print using CUPS. I could get KDE apps (KWrite, KEdit, etc) to print with CUPS but nothing else.

To set up a printer with apsfilter as root type in:
#: /usr/share/apsfilter/./SETUP

This will start the apsfilter printer setup program and it's a pretty simple thing to do really. Heck, if I could do it, anybody can.

Later,
MMYoung