October 4, 2018

Fedora and printer setup

You can netcat to port 9100 as I have long done, but there are advantages to working with the actual printer software on Fedora. This brings up a GUI, click on "Add", then "add network printer". When I did this there was significant delay while probing went on, then I was offered a menu of choices. One was "copier" on port 9100. I selected that and it began "searching for drivers" -- spooky in the way this is like Windows -- and ultimately it crashed with some python GUI error and I had to kill the window -- but it had done what was required. When I type "lpq" I get the following. 
lpq
Ricoh-MP-C2503 is ready
no entries
And now "lpr" works, which is what I want.
Not bad.

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