hplib, cups, xfce4-printing. pfff :/

sk8harddiefast

sk8harddiefast

Another try to set up my printer! Starting I must understand some things. Ltp is printing from terminal? Cups use WEBUI. When I want to print something, I will use cups, lpt, hplib or xfce4-printing (I have include printing flag on my xfce4). I try to understand witch direction I must take. The only that I remember is that there were printing option on hplib, on cups too. But I have also printing options on xfce4. I want a basic printing system without 3-4 tools with printing options.
 
Can you run the HP printing toolkit?

Its provided by /usr/ports/print/hplip. You would then run /usr/local/bin/hp-setup and use the wizard to configure your printer. The beauty of this is that it configures cups for you. I am not sure abut lpt for printing from terminal (I don't use this), but I think /usr/local/bin/lpr-cups does the trick.

When in GUI mode, you can start /usr/local/bin/hp-systray which allows you to set printing options and view device status.
 
And what's about xfce4-printing support? Also dmesg gives me:
Code: 
ugen4.2: <HP> at usbus4
ulpt0: <HP Deskjet 5900 series, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2> on usbus4
ulpt0: using bi-directional mode
 
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