Add Printer Wizard/Print Manager Help Needed

[Leonard Chatagnier]

Michael, thanks for the speedy reply. It seems I can use localhost via 
my Mozilla browzer but not
via print manager.  I did installed my cx6400 via browzer 
http://localhost:631, so apparently I have
cupsd started although I do not find the file anywhere on my hard drive 
or the configuration file.
The printer, now installed, wont print the test under print manager.  
The cups+gimp-print v4.2.7 driver
is installed and the filter is enscript text filter, all as my original 
setup which worked flawlessly under the
cups-1.1.23-4 version I had at the time.  But the printer wont print the 
test in print print manager set up the same way with cups-1.1.23-7, or 
any thing else I tried to print.   Both were Debian packages.  This message
appears when I click the test button under manager/ instances:
The MIME type application/postscript is not supported as input of the 
filter chain (this may happen with non-CUPS spoolers when performing 
page selection on a non-PostScript file). Do you want KDE to convert the 
file to a supported format?  I click yes, selected every option, none 
work, get message:
No appropriate filter found. Select another target format on all selections.
It seems that postscript somehow got involved and I don't know what to 
do about it or if I caused it.  Any
solutions or fixes come to mind?  Appreciate any help.

Leonard


Goffioul Michael wrote:

>>When I use the Add PrinterWizard and get to the test printer 
>>section, I 
>>can't get the test to work
>>as it won't accept my user name/password or root/password.  
>>I've tried 
>>to run Print manager from
>>the run dialog box as root but don't know/can't find the full path 
>>name(wont accept print manager
>>or printmanager).  Whenever I try as root I get a can't create a 
>>temporary printer message.  I have
>>had my CX6400 installed before, so I'm sure the printer driver is the 
>>right one.  A Debian kernel
>>upgrade and modem problems lead to a complete uninstall of 
>>kde and after 
>>reinstalling everything,
>>print manager seem to work differently(using KDE 3.3.2).  I'm 
>>a newbie 
>>to linux and KDE(I like KDE
>>over gnome/debian).  Perhaps you will give me some to the 
>>point answere 
>>so I may stop wasting
>>my time searching futily.  Specifically:
>>1. The fully qualified path name for the KDE Print Manager to 
>>use in the 
>>run command dialog box.
>>    I seem to remember that the first time you set up a 
>>printer you must 
>>use print manager as root?
>>    
>>
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>With CUPS, you don't need to run the print manager as root. If any
>operation requires authentication, a password dialog should pop up
>asking for an account with administration privilege (usually "root").
>The print manager can be strated from the command line with
>"kcmshell printers" and the add printer wizard with "kaddprinterwizard"
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>>2. What is causing the print test to fail when I run the Add Printer 
>>Wizard beside my lack of how to
>>    do it.
>>3. I'm using CUPS-1.1.23-7_i386.deb and there seems to be no cupsd 
>>daemon and there was in 1.1.23-4
>>    Was that an intended change or am I still doing something 
>>wrong.  I 
>>can't seem to get to the cups site
>>    via localhost as did in the previous version.  A condensed story 
>>here of what happened or what am I
>>    doing wrong would stop my concerns.
>>    
>>
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>You should have a cupsd daemon and it should be running. You should be
>able to connect to http://localhost:631 when the server is running.
>Be sure to start the CUPS service on your computer.
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>Michael.
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