System settings Printer of kde 4.11 unable to correctly set a printer using LPD/LPR protocol.
You enter the uri in the menu ex : lpd://192.166.1.3/lp, the process goes on until you setup your printer driver.
Then you get the following message : address bad uri device “lpd://lpd://192.168.1.3/lp”
That’s effectively a bad uri which I tried to correct but never succeed.
Work around : I used the web interface of CUPS, and within the menu I enter the same uri lpd://192.168.1.3/lp.
This time all is OK, the printer works.
[color=#000080]What exactly is the problem? Because in my machines I tried 4 printers, multifunction HP, 1560 HP, Epson and Lexmar and all acknowledge and work without problem on 32 and 64 bit, even networked Windows are still usable.[/color]
It seams rather clear now for me, that’s neither a KDE or CUPS bug. That’s probably linked to a bad configuration generated by the scripts behind system setting printer of (kde) or system-config-printer (probably the same). Apparently they write the following uri :lpd://lpd://192.168.1.3/lp, instead of lpd://192.168.1.3/lp.
The script generated by the web interface of CUPS is the good one.
