Printing

See also Enabling CUPS

This page is for recipes for connecting specific printer models to XO laptops.

If you have such a recipe, please edit this page and add your recipe. Please strive to make your recipe as complete, specific, and self-contained as possible. Deferring to the CUPS documentation or to LinuxPrinting.org is likely to prove overwhelming to many new users. Don't assume that the reader has a Linux background.

Preference should go to recent printer models, as older printers tend to become unusable with time. A few useful recipes is much better than a thousand recipes for obscure printers.

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Konica magicolor 2430 dl

I found linux drivers for this printer, but it requires sudo and/or make capabilities to install. The site is http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com. As this is the only printer to which I have access, I hope to resolve this (soon.)

Lexmark E342n Laser Printer

I followed Tony Pearson's Printing on XO Laptop with CUPS and LPR article step-by-step and got this printer to work without any problem. The Red Hat Linux driver was available from the Lexmark printer support website, and it instaled very easily with a provided bash script. I then used CUPS to install the printer and discovered that (as Tony points out in his article) a (root) user and password pop-up needs to appear with the last step of the CUPS install process, and you NEED to have Firefox or Opera running to see this as the default "Browse" will not handle this.