* stakanov
In data martedì 7 marzo 2017 23:22:04, Patrick Shanahan ha scritto: [...] With cups-browsed installed (and all the other packages) what happens is that with the update (which may be a situation that people encounter, it is not so rare that you begin and do not have a printer, do an update and then you decide to attach that printer, you have cups-browsed installed but it is not running but deactivated by default. Which is odd, how many laserprinter have pdf 1.7 emulation. I went to a sellers webpage and searched actively: brother, lexmark, all have but(!) only the higher models. A lot of what is out there still is a) convenient - because not brand new and b) does have postscript by default. So in my view, at least a popup in yast (where I did do my trials) would not be bad. I did read at the time the release notes, so that is why I recalled "something with cups....." but that after a while - it is like when you "recall" that your mobile phone might be again in the fridge.... :-(
So, at the end I "discovered" the printer over usb. But before it was over the LAN, correctly set IP, activated DNS-m (this is a venerable office printer that is so attractive because of his low cost, well working, "after-market" toner cartriges. So 3+1 toners cost now as 1 black of the originals... you may understand my nostalgic views) and with AVAHI running and asking discover....he did not see anything. Maybe you have to run discover of "all network server / printers" in yast differently. Firewall: as I wanted to minimize factors, the firewall was down. CUPS: cups interface on 631 did(!) see the printer...but did give me: SUCCESS - printer driver not found (while it was there). Which is some way funny if you think.
Well, I have in the end the doubt that for a postscript printer without integrated pdf integration you have to run forcefully the CUPS-browsing thing, even if (like in this case) I have DNS-m over LAN. And in all cases, printer discovery over LAN has to be either fixed in YAST, either set-up differently. The printer discover up to leap was the most userfriendly thing I can remember in opensuse. It becomes tedious, so I immagine it could become a source of constant irritation. Mainly because of missing info and of generational change of devices. Curretly all works as expected after the change to USB (also double sided printing) but I would be enjoying to have it run also over the LAN (in case I wish to put the printer in another location and for other devices).
Thank you for having answered. I appreciate.
if/when you switch back from usb to lan, it should be a simple matter to discover the lan address of the printer and give that to yast after searching for and configuring the "Lexmark C543" printer.
BTW. There is an existential question that is in my heard since some time. I have both: the foomatic and the gutenprint driver. Is there a difference and why we have two projects for filters? Does anybody know by chance? Currently I am running foomatic.
I presently have and tend to perfer hp printers and utilize their hplip provided drivers. hp presently printer wise is very linux friendly and I find easy to work with. In the past I tended to utilize foomatic as istr it was recommended first, but memory fades in my age and it has been some time since I used a non hp printer. there is a site I used to frequent when needing information about configuring a printer, https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/openprinting/start it provides a wealth of information and recommendations. your printer: http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Lexmark/Lexmark-C543 ftr: I have to provide the lan address to configure the hplip software but it is a simple thing. the printer itself advertises its ip address. all in all, I feel you are getting too deeply into this, a simple thing. I understand how we get started too specifically into a direction and have a problem off-times seeing the solution. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo @ http://linuxcounter.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org