Bug 75051

Summary:	Minor printing-guide issues
Product:	[OLD] Docs-user	Reporter:	Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) <swift>
Component:	Printing HOWTO	Assignee:	Docs Team <docs-team>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-12-20 06:48:02 UTC

E-mail sent to me by Eric Pretorius:


"""
While the "Gentoo Printing Guide" does a better job of explaining the
installation of CUPS and Gimp-Print than the any/all of the linuxprinting.org
documentation, there are a few things that are missing IMHO:

1. There's no reference to loading the parallel port printer module
(.../kernel/drivers/char/lp.o).

2. No directions are given to emerge gimp-print. I may have mis-stepped
though:  I emerged cups and gimp-print and cups first and *then* emerged
foomatic when I had troubles with foomatic-configure (because only
foomatic-db and foomatic-db-engine had been emerged with cups and
gimp-print). Maybe if I had emerged cups and gimp-print *first* (as directed)
gimp-print would have been installed as a dependancy?

3. HPIJS is mentioned explicitly in Section 3, "Special Printer Drivers", but
otherwise no mention is made to HPIJS. (e.g., "emerge hpijs")

These are minor nit-picks, though. Using the "Gentoo Printing Guide" I was
able to configure my Epson Stylus C60 and my HP LaserJet 4P with relative
ease. Thank you!
"""

Comment 1 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-12-22 14:10:56 UTC

- modprobe lp exists
- directions to install additional drivers exist
- the guide is filled with hpijs examples