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ezzetabi

Member

Registered: 2006-08-27

Posts: 947

Canon S750 printing problem.

I am trying to install my printer. I followed the wiki's instructions and my printer is correctly seen by the kernel:
I can see this in my bash

[root@pendulum ~]# tail /var/log/messages.log
[..]
Sep  9 17:19:15 pendulum usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
Sep  9 17:19:16 pendulum usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Sep  9 17:19:16 pendulum drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp1: USB Bidirectional printer dev 2 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x04A9 pid 0x106D
Sep  9 17:19:16 pendulum usbcore: registered new driver usblp
Sep  9 17:19:16 pendulum drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver

I read in the gimp-print site that my printer is supported (as Canon S630 actually, but it is not a problem)
So I tried installing gimp-print:

[root@pendulum ~]# pacman -S gimp-print-lprng...
:: gimp-print-lprng conflicts with cups. Remove cups? [Y/n] 

and here I am blocked... if I uninstall cups I am removing the printing support, am I not?

What I am doing wrong?

thanks.

chrismortimore

Member

From: Edinburgh, UK

Registered: 2006-07-15

Posts: 655

Re: Canon S750 printing problem.

LPR and CUPS are two different ways of printing.  If you look, you're trying to install gimp-print-lprng, so if you remove CUPS, you'll still be able to print using LPR instead.

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Lone_Wolf

Forum Moderator

From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 11,966

Re: Canon S750 printing problem.

You can also use an lpr printer through cups (i have my printer connected through a linksys printserver and can only use lpr but am still using it through cups).
Are you sure you need the gimp-print ?

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byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: Canon S750 printing problem.

gimp-print is no longer, the new name is gutenprint. The whole -lprng stuff should be deleted from the repos, imho.

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ezzetabi

Member

Registered: 2006-08-27

Posts: 947

Re: Canon S750 printing problem.

thanks byte, I fixed the Wiki.