[NTLUG:Discuss] Debian Printing Woes

[Terry]

On 4/20/05, Greg Edwards <greg at nas-inet.com> wrote:
> Zac Brown wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> >       I'm having a bit of trouble with my Debian desktop install. Its a Sarge
> > net-install and I've installed both cups and foomatic tools. I used the
> > same exact setup for my printer that I had for my Ubuntu and Fedora
> > setups and have had no luck printing. I've tried configuring from both
> 
> It's been my experience that once I get cups screwed up I'm better off to
> remove it and reinstall it clean.  Run a config GUI for it and it usually
> gets fixed.  I've managed to get cups tied up in knots more than a few
> times during a new install.
> 


I've never had any real problems with cups, accept that a couple times
it "stopped" printing and I only had to go into GUI config and "start"
again.  And then, the printer was mysteriously just removed, and I
only had to designate printer driver etc. and all was ok again. (This
was on a couple slackware installs that I maintain for others, so I
have no idea how the above two incidents occurred, but both were
easily fixed.)  I have never had any problems out of any others.