[ILUG] FC5 - printer

[Philip Creevy]

Gutenprint describes this as a paperweight as no
drivers are available.
The user restarted his machine (old windows user, first 
step in fixing any problem - restart machine)
and the printer list is back but the turboprint 
driver "tp0" is not showing up under printer configuration
but is working in the applications he uses.
It just requires one extra set to select the printer 
before printing.
Now he wants the scanner to work but on this one I have 
sent him to Canon - Japan :-)

Philip

On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 15:39 +0000, Frank Duignan wrote:
> Gutenprint is your friend here most likely:
> see this discussion:
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=520074
> 
> 
> On 2/9/07, Philip Creevy <tiger98 at iol.ie> wrote:
>         Hi all,
>         I am looking after a machine for a friend with
>         FC5 installed on it.
>         He had a HP printer on it that worked fine but
>         was very old and so got a Canon PIXMA MP160
>         without asking me first to check for drivers. 
>         It does not have drivers under CUPS so I got
>         Turboprint and had him set it up.
>         It worked fine but was not the default printer
>         and so he tried to change it under "Administration->printing"
>         but somehow ended up with a generic option and no access 
>         to any of the other printers.
>         The Canon shows up as tp0.
>         I don't have a machine with FC5 on it to see what he is
>         seeing,
>         Can anyone tell me what he needs to changed to either get back
>         to where he was or get the Canon setup as the Default. 
>         
>         Regards
>         Philip
>         
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