Printers

[agabriel at coe.neu.edu (Anthony J. Gabrielson)]

Hello,

	I'm not sure if anyones tried SuSE 6 - but through yast printer
set is a breeze.  Doesn't matter if you getting the printer localy or
remotely through samba or nfs. It's an easy config.  Check it out.

Anthony

On Mon, 3 May 1999, Glenn Burkhardt wrote:

> > I'm new at kernels and new at configuring printers, which is probably not a 
> > good combination in this situation. Are there any suggestions about this? 
> > Have people successfully configured a printer with kernel 2.2.x? I'm trying 
> > to use an HP deskjet if that means anything.
> 
> Boy, is this annoying to here.  Setting up a printer should be trivial by 
> now.  But Sun has made the same mistake - they paid virtually no attention
> to setting up printers, and it's a headache.
> 
> I was pleased to find with RedHat 5.2 that setting up a Deskjet on my machine
> was as easy as getting a printer to work with Mickysoft boxes.  But it
> seems that the basic Linux support just isn't there, if this complaint is
> representative.
> 
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