Hi, I want to print a page from Konqueror on a networked HP 1320n Laser printer. That kind of printer has its own server and responds to a IP address. It does not need any other computer to function properly. Now in FC6 I use the KDE menu to launch system-config-printer and this GUI shows up a window with all the options except two grayed out. One of these options is to refresh the list so the only real option left is to conenct to a server, so I press that button. Next comes a dialog box for the purpose of conencting to a CUPS server (only option) using the root account. So I press connect. Then it tells me: httpConnectionEncrypt failed OK, so I repeat the operation and this time check the bix for encrytion before pressing connect. Same error. OK, so CUPS is not running. I went back to the KDE menu and found out a server parameter entry and a 'Services' entry, so I choose that. Simply enough, I check boxed the cups server and launched it. After that the operation above went fine and moreover, detected automagically the networked printer. So that's great. My idea is: wouldn't it be more user friendly to simply launch quietly the CUPS server in the first place if it's not running instead of having the user find out (hopefully successfully) about server parameters and services ? My two cents. Cheers.
