Comment 4 for bug 883585
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| Carl Nobile (cnobile1) wrote Re: Kubuntu 11.10 -- Printers found but cannot print | #4 |
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I also am printing to a NAS cups server. I wonder if the cups server on the NAS is, somehow, not compatible with the cups server on my laptops? Humm, I'll have to test out that theory, by connecting the printer to my server instead of the NAS. This may also explain the errors I saw in the network traffic between the two I listed above. However, I connected a printer directly to the laptop and that didn't work either.
As far as using something other than cups you could always fall back to an LPD server, but the configuration will drive you nuts. In most cases you would have to write you own /etc/printcap file. Plus there are so many other apps in Ubuntu/Kubuntu that depent on cups being there that you may not be able to do it at all anymore.
BTW, I have the exact same symptoms as you, which is another reason I believe there is a bug in cups code somewhere.