[NTLUG:Discuss] Printers/Open SuSE 11.0 -- Followup

Stephen Davidson gorky at freenet.carleton.ca
Thu Jan 22 14:00:40 CST 2009


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Greetings.

For Canon, and apparently several other manufacturers,
http://openprinting.org/printer_list.cgi?make=Canon worked quite well
for me!

So, will give it a few days, and if no other issues show up, I will
start trying 11.0 on some other computers needing an upgrade.

Regards,
Steve

Stephen Davidson wrote:
> Greetings.
> 
> It seems that SuSE ships with a package called "Omni", which is supposed
> to have all sorts of printer drivers.  This appears to be part of the
> Ghostscript install.  Unfortunately, something apparently does not get
> installed correctly, and as a result, none of the printer packages work
> -- the appropriate lib*.so files can not be found/loaded.
> 
> For my HP Printer, I installed the Foomatic drivers from HP via Yast,
> and bypassed this issue.  Still looking for specific Canon drivers.
> 
> Regards,
> Steve
> 

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