[Gnumed-devel] Re: Gnome (Debian, Ubuntu) and gnumed medication printing

[Jim Busser]

Getting there... 

I am able to get the vm to print a test page, as well as a page from within 
gedit. Lacking (in Gnome) KDE's kprinter, install the Gnome alternative gtklp 
(848kB).

        sudo apt-get install gtklp

Change the two occurrences of kprinter to gtklp in

        /rc4/external-tools/ gm-print_doc (now in ~/bin)

I will try again. Should it have any relevance to GNUmed whether the CUPS 
server is any of
        localhost vs /var/run/cups/cups.sock
        require encrypted connection

        (settings:)
        allow / disallow (default) remote administration

IOW should all of them work, and it is merely up to the sysadmin whether they 
wish the machines to share a print queue off a server and whether or not to 
allow each other to kill jibs etc?

I will try again to print. If unsuccessful (prediction: I will get further, but 
not to the end) I will send to the bugs list.

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Administrivia below in case needed for troubleshooting

Within Ubuntu, I confirmed I could ping a networked HP Laserjet printer after 
which Ubuntu's System > Administration > Printing (its "About" says 
'system-config-printer 1.1.12') permitted me Server > New > Printer and input 
the IP of a networked HP Laserjet (using recommended foomatic PPD).

Device URIs in the Printer configuration window > Properties now include the 
working

        hp:/net/HP_LaserJet_2100_Series?ip=192.168.23.133
                of make & model
                HP LaserJet 2100 Foomatic/pxlmono (recommended)

and possibly messed up ones created by VM ware )others of which I have had to 
delete)

        tpvmgp://Brother_MFC-420CN:2
                Brother MFC-420CN CUPS

        tpvmgp://Lexmark_International_Lexmark_E321:3
                Generic PostScript Printer

        tpvmgp://Penny_10.28.61.138:4
                HP LaserJet 1320 series

VM Fusion seemed able to import import the host MacBook printer setting 
information. Not sure if at all related to optional VMware menu "Install VMware 
Tools" or bugs therein. Printing from a Debian Lenny vm to a USB 
network-connected printing seemed a bit flaky… I seemed to have to enable local 
USB print sharing on the host Mac).

A Brother and Lexmark printer (both in fact USB) appear (under New printer 
autodetection listings) as 'Network" … "Remote CUPS printer via DNS-SD and 
drivers that took the names of other previously-created (on the Mac) HP drivers 
show the same attribute under the field "Device URI" as some