Printing

The office printers have instructions for setting them up under Windows, Mac, and Ubuntu. I had forgotten how to wrangle printers, since the last time I had to set up new ones was half a decade ago when I first joined the OSL.

Setting up printers on Arch is easy once you know the right incantations, but can waste some time if you try to do it by skimming the huge wiki page rather than either reading it thoroughly or just following these steps:

Install the CUPS client:

$ yaourt -S libcups

Add a magic line to /etc/cups/cups-files.conf:

SystemGroup username

With your username on the system, assuming you have root and will log in as yourself in the dialog it prompts for. That line can go anywhere in the file.

Make the daemon go:

$ sudo systemctl enable org.cups.cupsd.service
$ sudo systemctl start org.cups.cupsd.service

Visit the web interface at http://localhost:631.

Then you have a GUI sufficiently similar to the one in the instructions for Ubuntu!

There is no GUI client for CUPS to install. If you find yourself mucking about with gpr, xpp, kdeprint, or /etc/cups/client.conf, you have gone way too far down the wrong rabbit hole.