[CTRL]+[p]

Webconverger only prints to auto-detected CUPS networked printers.

Supported network printers shared through CUPS are automatically discovered and configured. No other printers (connected locally or networked) will be available.

Holding down the [Control] and [p] keys on your keyboard gives you the printing dialog.

If you do not see your printer in that dialog and you just see PostScript/default (or Print to File), your print server is not correctly configured.

Little video of myself getting printing working

Debug

Go to localhost:631 and view the Manage printers tab to try and diagnose the printer fault.

tail -f /var/log/cups/error_log

If you see for an example: cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided., that means you are restricting access. Here is an example of printing server which permits everything.

Printing to PDF on your network

The cups-pdf package allows you to setup a server (Debian lenny recommended for this task) on your network that basically dumps PDFs of printing material sent to it. Hence you do not require a printer!

This is useful for debugging and allowing you to manually check what does and does not get printed.

PDF example of the Webconverger portal

Supported printers

Check for support in this list of printers. Otherwise since new Apple Macs with Mac OS X use CUPS, you will have fairly good chances with Mac compatible printers.

Try write a letter and print it in Webconverger!

Setting up your CUPS printer on your network server

You do not host a printer service on the machine running the Webconverger operating system.

You host the printer on a server running another operating system like Ubuntu, Debian or Archlinux. On that server, the important elements to enable in http://localhost:631/admin/ are:

• Show printers share by other systems
• Share published printers connect to this system

These options basically set Browsing On and some Allow IP filters usually for your local network.