Printing system badly broken ...

[oddjobz]

I've been struggling for a while totally confised as to what I was doing wrong. The answer:: absolutely nothing.

I don't know what's been done to the ebuild stuff, but for me, it just doesn't work. (hate to be so inspecific, but that's the only conclusion I can come to, cups just seems to fail to pick up correct info when adding a printer)

Building esp postscript and cups from clean source worked for me FIRST TIME. (I tend to extrace the .spec, rpmbuild, then rpm --nodeps)

My printer:: HP Photosmart 1215
Now working perfectly ... (!)

Am I the only one with a non PS printer ?!

[crazycat]

try turboprint.
I have read a pretty negative article on slashdot about linux+printing+cups and didn't want to mess with it wasting precious time and nerves figuring out which driver will pass to my printer (which is not listed on www.linuxprinting.org). Its commercial but free for private use and u will setup it in 2 min and never bother urself with it anymore. For me it works and has pretty much configuration possibilities.

[oddjobz]

It's only the Gentoo port that's broke

fyi; if we could have a Gentoo port of qtcupds, that would help lots