[ale] Lazy User's Slackware Q: Want printer setup tool

Jim Philips jimmyc at speedfactory.net
Wed Jul 21 18:58:29 EDT 2004


On Wednesday 21 July 2004 10:19, John Mills wrote:
> ALErs -
>
> I have a soggy laptop with Slack-9.1 and want to add a printer (a remote
> PS printer in fact). I have one printer installed with LPRng-3.8.22, and
> want to add a second.
>
> I've looked for something like the RH printer tools and come up joyless.
> I read the 'PrintingCookbook' and gone looking for 'lprngtool' and found
> nothing. I reran 'pkgtool' and looked for a configuration script and
> didn't recognize any suitable hooks.
>
> How should I add a printer without losing the installation I've got?

It's easy to add printers in the KDE Control Center, no matter what print 
protocol you're using. CUPS is the easiest, though.



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