cups printing

[Ledster]

Installed the latest cups pup - very easy.
Test page - ok.
Print from Open Office - ok.
So far so good.

First problem
Print from Abiword - no, it wants to use its own setup. Obviously doesn't recognise cups.

Next problem
Paper jam, so had to turn printer off to clear. On restart it started to print page after page of gobbledegook.
Looked in the menu system for a print manager to cancel printing - only the old one, which doesn't show cups, so switched printer off again. I had to reboot to clear the system, and even then lpstat showed 4 jobs going which I had to cancel (amazing what you learn when you have to! I had no idea you could do that from the console).
So I tried looking for help. Couldn't find any. Tried man cups - started the puppy help system.

Can someone please help a newbie to tie this up?

Ches

[paulh177]

as i recall (i don't have a puppy running at this instant), open a browser and go to address http://localhost:631

[Gn2]

Any print jobs pending in queue are not killed by stopping/restarting the print daemon.

You may use the browser utility as suggested above to delete
any - or use (lpc) utility to find status, then kill by use of
(lprm job_numerical_I.D)

Otherwise -as you noticed - the printer, once enabled - keeps
doing as it was told -
Prints until the buffered tasks are completed.

[Gn2]

(So does the B/B if it hangs a refresh) !


Plse DELETE - TIA

[rcrsn51]

Abiword will print under CUPS. Select Generic Postscript from its print dialog and the job will go to the default CUPS printer.

[Ledster]

Thanks for the help. I shall incorporate that link into my (hard disk based) homepage in due time, meanwhile I have bookmarked it.
The Abiword tip was good as well.
My only wish now is that Canon printers were better supported - I have a perfectly good Canon S520 that Linuxprinting.org classifies as a "paperweight". C'est la vie.

Cheers

Ches