[kde-linux] Switching to KDE-4.2: Problem #1: I can't print to my printer

[James Richard Tyrer]

Dale wrote:
> James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>> John Layt wrote:
>>   
>>> On Thursday 05 February 2009 22:56:27 James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>>>     
>>>> Anne Wilson wrote:
>>>>       
>>>>> If your print queue is set up in CUPS, kwrite should list it as 
>>>>> an available printer. You shouldn't need to give any command at 
>>>>> all. For the attached screenshot I just hit File > Print.
>>>>>         
>>>> I don't have CUPS installed. It isn't really necessary when you 
>>>> have one or two printers connected directly to one computer. To 
>>>> coin a phrase, in this case, it is like using a sledge hammer to 
>>>> kill
>>>>       
>>> mosquitoes.
>>>     
>>>> However, if it is possible to use the GhostScript printer drivers 
>>>> with CUPS, I will install it if that is the only way.
>>>>       
>>> If you don't have CUPS installed, then the Qt Print Dialog should 
>>> fall back to whatever printer queues you already have set up in lp.
>>>     
>> Yes, but the problem is that it doesn't work.  I can print to a PS file
>> and then open a Konsole and:
>>
>> 	lpr <file>.ps
>>
>> and it prints.  So, if KDE is using the command lpr then it should work. 
>>   However, it appears that KDE is not using it except in Okular.
>>
>>   
>>> But you really should try CUPS, it does make a lot of things easier, 
>>>     
>> Wonder what things these would be.  All I know is that it is hard to 
>> setup unless you purchase the proprietary printer drivers for it.
>>
>>   
> 
> I been using cups for years.  I have never bought any drivers.  It comes
> with a lot of drivers included.
> 
Won't argue how many years, but when I first tried it, the drivers were 
proprietary; ESP charged for them.  Perhaps this business plan didn't 
work.  It appears that Apple purchased CUPS and now this has changed and 
the proprietary drivers are no longer available.  Technically, what they 
are currently calling drivers are not drivers but rather slightly 
modified PPD files.

-- 
JRT