[ale] Laptop Printing

[James Sumners]

Have you checked to make sure printing is allowed from any machine, or
specific machines, from your local subnet?

On 5/22/07, Jim Moore <j9916moore at bellsouth.net> wrote:
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>  I've tinkered around with this and am definitely getting nowhere.  So I'll
> toss this out here and see if anyone can give me some ideas.
>
>  Systerm Stats.
>  1.  Desktop   Dimension 4600 running FC5  on  Lan
>  2.  Laptop  Gateway 4522 running Debian Etch 4.0  on wireless
>  3.  Router Netgear WGT624 v.3 running DHCP
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>  Cups interface (localhost:631) on Dell looks like this.
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>  Printers
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>    Home      Administration      Classes      Documentation/Help      Jobs
>    Printers
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>  Search in Printers: Clear
>
>  Showing 2 of 2 printers.
>        Sort Descending
>  Epson
>      Description: Stylus c88+
>  Location: Dining Room
>  Make and Model: EPSON Stylus C87, Photo Image Print System
>  Printer State: idle, accepting jobs, published.
>  Device URI: usb://EPSON/Stylus%20C88
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>  stylus-c88--1 (Default Printer) "Connecting to 192.168.0.1 on port 631..."
>      Description: Dining Room
>  Location: Dining Room
>  Make and Model: Epson Stylus C86 Foomatic/gutenprint-ijs-simplified.5.0
>  Printer State: processing, accepting jobs, published.
>  Device URI: ipp://192.168.0.1/printers/queue1
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>   To print from the desktop I have to use the first one EPSON.
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>  When I go to the laptop it sees both but neither will print.
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>  Debian has an interface for printing under Applications-System
> Tools-Printing  and them another under
> Desktop-Administration-Printing.  Have tinkered with both
> but am getting deeper into a swamp filled with alligators.
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>  Any suggestions and help would truly be appreciated.  Good Lord if I'd
> known this would be such a can of worms I'd have bought an HP or tried to
> find a reasonable network printer.
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>  Jim
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