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{{Developers}} |
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Peter Krenesky, from the Open Source Lab at Oregon State University, has verified that CUPS is installable and works on the XO over a |
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traditional wireless network with the following steps from the Terminal activity: |
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== Install CUPS: == |
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su - |
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yum install cups.i386 |
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Yum currently fails in 8.2 builds. This is covered in [http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8125 | Trac ticket 8125]. There is a workaround there too. |
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== Configure your printer (in terminal) == |
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Configure your printer by editing: |
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/etc/cups/printers.conf |
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===Example entry in printers.conf=== |
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<Printer fooprinter> |
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DeviceURI ipp://19.86.47.16 |
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</Printer> |
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==Restart CUPS== |
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/etc/init.d/cups restart |
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or |
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/sbin/service cups start |
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==Configure CUPS using CUPS' html interface== |
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Rather than editing printer.conf, a full featured visual admin tool is available. |
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In Browse open 'http://localhost:631/admin/ |
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==Print using the lpr command== |
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lpr -P fooprinter foodoc.ps |
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(In the above example, the printer name is "fooprinter" and the document being printed is "foodoc.ps".) |
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The long-term plan is a Sugar integration, but in a pinch this should get you started. Of course, the option remains to copy your files to a USB stick and print from another machines. |
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==Print from Firefox== |
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One Sugar activity with printer support is [[Firefox]]. This has a traditional menu system. This will give you an example of printing integrated with an activity. File/Print/ brings up a traditional print dialog. |
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==See also== |
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*[[Printing Design]] |
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*[[Printer Support]] |
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*[http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/InsideSystemStorage?entry=printing_on_xo_laptop_with Tony Pearson's Printing on XO laptop with CUPS and LPR] |
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