Comments on: Amazingly crap print support in Ubuntu 6.06

By: Charl P. Botha

Charl P. Botha — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 15:03:40 +0000

Hey it’s me again, but this is important. http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/2117/ clears up a lot about the crippled Ubuntu cups setup.

I’m back to cups printing, as my samba printing is showing all kinds of delays when I try and print via the wireless iface of my server, in spite of having performed all kinds of iptables tricks.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 21:07:33 +0000

Pah! That’s nothing. When I was young we printed by chewing asphalt and spitting it on white underpants. The only users we had were still in the underpants, how’s that for networking, Mr. Soon-To-Live-In-A-Gated-Community?

By: Charl P. Botha

Charl P. Botha — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 21:28:19 +0000

Sorry for commenting on my own post, but this is a keeper: you’re printing from Windows XP SP2 to a Samba printer server, and you notice that things are REALLY very sluggish… do the following to fix (I’ve confirmed that this works):

http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2005-September/110571.html

By: Rudolph

Rudolph — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 09:23:59 +0000

Or… you could just hook it up to a Mac, enable Bonjour (Zeroconf) and then get on with “Real Work and Other Things To Do”.