[Novices] printing in Fedora Core 2

[Steve Petersen]

Hey folks,

Thanks for your help on the wireless question, first of all.  It seemed 
so weird to me that just repositioning the WAP would have that much 
effect, but it does seem to be the best solution so far (though not 
ideal).  The Linksys repeater was hopeless, it seemed.

Now I have another small problem.  I would like to print to a networked 
printer at my office in Kalamazoo College.  I know from exploring the 
Windows side that the 2 printers available to me are on 
Phantom.knet.kzoo.edu, and that their names are 'HH2' and 'HHColor'.  In 
the past, in older RedHat's, I have just printed to an IP address.  But 
that seems no longer to be an option, except in the "JetDirect" setup 
(whatever that is).  CUPS and UNIX setup all want to know the server and 
queue.  But how do I know what the queue is?  I couldn't seem to 
discover this at all hunting around through the Windows printer setup. 
Is it '/printers/HHColor', for example?  Or just 'HHColor'?  Or is the 
server address really HHColor.Phantom.knet.kzoo.edu...?  I tried many 
combinations and none seemed to work.  I also tried printing to an IP 
address under the 'JetDirect' option, since I'd learned the IP.

Then, something like 20 minutes later, I happened to go back to the 
printer room after printing something from Windows (last resort!), and 
there was a CUPS test page, so *something* must have worked, eventually.

I noticed with RH too that IP printing was really slow, so maybe that 
was the only thing that worked... but if so, why is it so slow?  The 
Windows printing started right away.

Anyway, thanks for any insight.  This should be easy, I know, but I 
remain baffled by network printing in linux.

Steve