Printing question for v11.0
Tim Coughlin
I am wondering any one might know if the mechanism for printers to be
discovered by CUPS still exists in Webconverger? If so, any idea of
were the configuration file would be stored? I'm looking to hard code
(not sure how, yet) a printer into the config and respin the iso.
Many Thanks!
-Tim
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Tim Coughlin
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215-778-5170
Computer, Network & Phone Technician
School District of Springfield Township
Kai Hendry
Sorry I've removed CUPS (printing) packages from the default download,
only offering as a customisation request on webconverger.com
http://webconverger.org/printing/
Confusingly, the ctrl+p printing dialog still works. I need to disable this.
When CUPs is present, it just detects the network printer. No need for
hard coding.
Kind regards,
Rick C. Hodgin
Kai,
Am I to understand that you no longer support CUPS printing unless we pay you for a customized version?
- Rick C. Hodgin
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Kai Hendry
> Am I to understand that you no longer support CUPS printing unless we pay
> you for a customized version?
CUPs packages were removed from the downloadable version to make the
download smaller. So were non-English locales.
In the past I've maintained a "mini" & "maxi" version. I found it too
much trouble to maintain the "maxi" version, especially since the
"mini" version was much more popular. So, these extraneous
options/features are customisation options now, unless you build it
yourself http://webconverger.org/develop
Kind regards,
Rick C. Hodgin
So is the answer yes? Apart from building it ourself, we can no longer print unless we pay you for customization? Yes or no?
Kai Hendry
> So is the answer yes? Apart from building it ourself, we can no longer print
> unless we pay you for customization? Yes or no?
Yes, that's correct.
If there is popular demand to put CUPs back and the extra megabytes
then I'm happy to put it back.
rebeccam...@gmail.com
Kai Hendry
On 8 April 2012 00:02, <rebeccam...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am wondering any one might know if the mechanism for printers to be
>> discovered by CUPS still exists in Webconverger? If so, any idea of
>> were the configuration file would be stored? I'm looking to hard code
>> (not sure how, yet) a printer into the config and respin the iso.
It's a question of going into the chroot, `apt-get update && apt-get
install cups` to restore printing functionality.
We don't include it yet, especially since we have not got the gitfs
stuff working, and cups would bloat the final ISO image considerably.
The way I've configured printers in the past
http://webconverger.org/printing/ is not to hard code anything.
Webconverger makes that assumption and I've successfully made my
printing setups be discoverable in the past. Tbh I don't know enough
about cups to understand why you would want to hard code it instead of
say make is discoverable. The analogy in my mind is the difference
between using DHCP (good) in one's LAN or not.
Going forward Webconverger, the commercial side will provide
printing/java setups (just ask sales) as long as you subscribe to the
configuration service http://config.webconverger.com/ and you can
tolerate large ISOs. :)
Kind regards,