On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 14:13 -0500, Kepu wrote: > Just installed wine to my mepis11, and few programs under it, ... irfaview, justbasic,... > everything works fine except printing, > under wine, non of those programs show any printers not a virtual .pdf or my HP1200. > any suggestion? I am total novice, please. > The following should be in the FAQ. If it already is, it needs more visibility. If not, it should be added. Either way id need to be easy to find since this is a common question that has been asked many times. Wine prints through CUPS. It expects CUPS to be available as an internet printer, rather than using the 'lpr' interface. However, most distros only enable the lpr interface by default and block internet printing. So, to make CUPS available to Wine, you have to enable Internet printing. Do the following by using your distro's Print Server configuration tool: - enable 'Publish shared printers connected to this system' - enable 'Allow printing from the internet' This lets CUPS accept Internet printing jobs from the local machine regardless of which machine the printer is attached to or whether it is a network printer: Wine sends the print job to the local CUPS service which spools the document and then sends it to the default printer regardless of whether that printer is locally attached, is attached to another computer on your network, or is a network printer. You'll need to know the root password to do this. It also goes without saying that you have previously set up CUPS correctly, which means that: - you have set up CUPS to use your printer(s) - you have set your preferred printer as the default printer - you have tested that CUPS can successfully print the test page on this printer Martin
