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Posted: Dec. 23 2007,03:23

The printing ones that you have written about i.e. hplip, cups etc.
You can help yourself by doing a forum/wiki/extension search.

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Posted: Dec. 23 2007,15:10

Thanks hats,

Got Juanito's extensions up and running.

It took me 4-1/2 hours and I already had the packages downloaded. I've written some scripts to make the process easier for next time and I'll upload them on a thread in Extensions.

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Posted: Dec. 25 2007,20:50

Quote (john.martzouco @ Dec. 23 2007,10:10)

It took me 4-1/2 hours and I already had the packages downloaded.

Next time it should only take you about half the time :laugh:

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Posted: Dec. 26 2007,03:51

It takes about 5 minutes now. I put the config files into my backup.tar.gz And I created a tar.gz for each of the 2 UCIs that need to be permanent... run one script and they get installed to opt for an HD install.

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Posted: Dec. 29 2007,19:31

I've successfully printed test pages from the CUPS browser configuration page. I've also successfully printed a test page from Ted.

I'd like to configure some of the other applications I'm using in DSL to print as well. I've tried a few and each one seems to need its own configuring. I'm hoping that there's a single place where I can set something up and have it affect all the apps.

Can anybody help me with this?

I'd like to print from:
1) Firefox
2) GIMP
3) Beaver
4) my Windows editor running under Wine (Multi-Edit)

I've set up the printing symlinks as detailed in the hplip.info file:

Code Sample

ln -s /opt/hplip/bin/lp /usr/bin/lp
ln -s /opt/hplip/bin/lpr /usr/bin/lpr
ln -s /opt/hplip/bin/lpstat /usr/bin/lpstat
ln -s /opt/hplip/sbin/lpc /usr/sbin/lpc

Much thanks,
John

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