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Anthony Nordquist
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|  | How to configure your printer
« Thread Started on Jan 21, 2011, 6:46pm » | |
To configure a printer attached to your machine just follow these steps:
1. Open a terminal and issue the following command gksu aptitude install system-config-printer
2. Go to the Applications Menu > System > Printing
3. If your printer is displayed in this box then just right click on it and ensure it is enabled.
4. If your printer is not found automatically, open the drop down menu on the left by the + sign and click printer.
5. Select the devices location on the left hand side and click forward.
6. The printing setup program will now let you set some parameters and select the manufacturer and model of your printer. Just follow the steps as prompted on screen.
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« Reply #1 on Jan 22, 2011, 3:19pm » | |
Hi
I get the ubuiquitous user and password is forbidden message which litters the internet from the Douglas Adams' cafe at the end of the universe to many of the forums on the net.
neither my normal user name or password, or my name and admin passwords work as usual.
The machine is listening on port 631
It seems from etc/cups/cuupsd.conf that all permissions are set to "deny"
This is provided:
# Only listen for connections from the local machine.
Listen localhost:631
Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock
apparently one has to provide a location:
Allow From 127.0.0.1 and that it isnt commented
However, there are a variety of "location" lines in the .conf.
So it might be an idea to give particular directions in a post for the provided/stock cupsd.conf on particularly which parts to change with examples and also to provide for new people, particularly what it means to comment/uncomment.
Of course the post would not apply to any other non/standard, as provided by the distro setup.
Or provide a complete .conf file which can be copied and pasted with instructions on how to get into admin to do it since system permissions are set for root changes only.
Or go to a standard, on distro, printer setup.
just some thoughts.
woodsmoke
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« Reply #2 on Jan 23, 2011, 1:26pm » | |
Hi
If one wishes a moderator could mark this solved unless someone thinks there might be other situations arise for which the thread could be helpful.
Thanks very much for the updated howto! 
I, personally, have found very few times in which the whole online way of doing it worked even halfway well.
Anyhow, I copied and pasted the above into terminal, it asked for a root password, which I provided and aptitude did its magic, and btw I like the kewl semitransparent terminal screen!
I saw no menu item after that so I restarted and indeed saw:
Applications/system/printing
When clicked the menu item provided a box named "Printing-localhost".
It automatically displayed the Deskjet F300 usb printer.
I clicked "printer" next to the + sign and saw that the system had already found a parallel HPLaserjet6P but had not enabled it, so I clicked it, went through a couple of boxes, had to provide a password twice and the 6P appeared in the box.
so...done as done!!! 
thanks again for the update!
woodsmoke
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« Reply #3 on Jan 23, 2011, 1:34pm » | |
Documenting printer setup was a complete and total oversight for 1.0. I don't own a printer myself and in 5 beta builds and an RC nobody mentioned it to me. Will be adding system-config-printer to the 1.1 builds and adding the guide to the user manual. Now if people start donating I will get a bluetooth device and try and document that in the user manual for 1.2.
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« Reply #4 on Feb 11, 2011, 6:41pm » | |
Hi,
I am new to Saline. Just downloaded and tried on the AMD athlon computer.
Works great. It is fast. Thanks for the great OS
Now I am trying to set up my Brother MFC-7340.
The issue is that Missing printer driver.
Could anyone please help.
Thanks
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« Reply #6 on Feb 11, 2011, 7:46pm » | |
Hi Anthony,
Thank you so much for the links.
I followed it,
installed ia32-libs , sane-utils via synaptic
Downloaded two files from the links
brmfc7340lpr-2.0.2-1.i386.deb
cupswrapperMFC7340-2.0.2-1.i386
After that go back to Applications>System>Printing and see the MFC7340 appears in the windows.
Print a test page : OK, print some a few files,, all working OK.
Now I am happy with the printer setup.
Tried scanner, it did not work, the MFC7340 display screen is showing connecting to pc and wait for long time before it quit.
Something is missing on scanning , but no urgency to resolve as I need printing function only for time being.
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« Reply #7 on Feb 11, 2011, 7:57pm » | |
Feb 11, 2011, 7:46pm, wayne1288 wrote:Hi Anthony,
Thank you so much for the links.
I followed it,
installed ia32-libs , sane-utils via synaptic
Downloaded two files from the links
brmfc7340lpr-2.0.2-1.i386.deb
cupswrapperMFC7340-2.0.2-1.i386
After that go back to Applications>System>Printing and see the MFC7340 appears in the windows.
Print a test page : OK, print some a few files,, all working OK.
Now I am happy with the printer setup.
Tried scanner, it did not work, the MFC7340 display screen is showing connecting to pc and wait for long time before it quit.
Something is missing on scanning , but no urgency to resolve as I need printing function only for time being.
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Try opening xsane scanning program in the Terminal, the output it prints will be helpful in troubleshooting.
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« Reply #8 on Feb 11, 2011, 9:43pm » | |
Quote:| Try opening xsane scanning program in the Terminal, the output it prints will be helpful in troubleshooting. |
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xsane said No device available.
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| | Re: How to configure your printer
« Reply #9 on Feb 11, 2011, 9:58pm » | |
Wayne are you running the 64 bit version or 32?
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« Reply #10 on Feb 11, 2011, 11:30pm » | |
Hi Anthony,
I am using 64-bit.
$ uname -r
2.6.32-5-amd64
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« Reply #11 on Feb 12, 2011, 12:39am » | |
Seems you need a scanner driver as well  You can grab the .deb here http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/brscan3-0.2.11-4.amd64.deb
Google informs me there are issues with where that driver package will install some files. If that package doesn't just work, open Thunar as root and copy these files from /usr/lib64/sane to /usr/lib/sane
libsane-brother.so
libsane-brother.so.1
libsane-brother.so.1.0.20
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« Reply #12 on Feb 12, 2011, 1:50am » | |
ok, grab the deb file on your link.
install it.
then check, both directories have three files , last one 1.0.7 different from your 1.0.20
tested, did not work 
Quote:
amd@amd:~$ cd /usr/lib64/sane
amd@amd:/usr/lib64/sane$ ls |grep brother
libsane-brother3.so
libsane-brother3.so.1
libsane-brother3.so.1.0.7
amd@amd:/usr/lib64/sane$ cd /usr/lib/sane
amd@amd:/usr/lib/sane$ ls | grep brother
libsane-brother3.so
libsane-brother3.so.1
libsane-brother3.so.1.0.7
amd@amd:/usr/lib/sane$
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« Reply #13 on Feb 12, 2011, 2:05am » | |
Xsane should have picked it up  Brother has its own scanning tool you might try .. Yet another .deb link for you http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/brscan-skey-0.2.1-3.amd64.deb
Then you can start the scanner program (A background daemon) using the command brscan-skey you can check to see if it found your device with the command brscan-skey -l
The instructions they include for use are just "Press the scan button, select user, select destination, press START."
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« Reply #14 on Feb 12, 2011, 8:14pm » | |
Well, sound like I have some luck with your help 
on terminal, command xsane shows error
Failed to open device 'brother3:bus1;dev1':invalid argument.
just try run command xsane on root, got a warning, but it runs
so the image on scanner comes to the computer, first time success doing it on Linux OS
Now I have not yet learned how to navigate on saving image... got to read menual and try more luck.
thanks for the help
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