http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494547
User jsmeix@novell.com added comment
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494547#c4
--- Comment #4 from Johannes Meixner 2009-04-16 02:05:07 MDT ---
manufacturer-PPDs
is also not strictly required (see my addedum mail on opensuse-factory)
A minimal but still useful printing locally stack should be
cups
cups-client
cups-drivers
and all what those strictly require via RPM requirements.
The question with such a minimal printing locally stack
on a LiveCD is that the drivers in cups-drivers
- provide only basic support for many printers
- many current inkjet printer models are not explicitely
listed via PPDs in cups-drivers so that the user must
manually find and select a compatible model
- for several current inkjet printer models there is no
driver in cups-drivers so that it cannot work to
find and select a compatible model in cups-drivers
which may lead to long and frustrating and hopeless
attempts by the user to find and select a compatible
model in cups-drivers until the user finally gives up
In the end the printing experience might be poor or annoying
so that the user might pubish a negative statement like
"openSUSE sucks because it doesn't print".
Additionally yast2-printer might be nice to have ;-)
see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492690#c3
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I just tried to add the printer again from YaST.
It offered me the Omni driver, so I clicked on "add driver",
removed Omni, and added Gutenprint plus the normal PostSript
driver.
Eventually it said that PostScript was the recommended one;
I chose that one and printing works now.
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