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FC7 and canon iR C3170 network printer

At work i have got my laptop with FC7. I tried to install our work's printer (on 192.168.2.50) , here what I did :

Through GUI, System-->Administration-->Printing--> New Printer ,,,,but i do not what should I choos to assign TCP/IP port to the FC7 PC.

Options are :

Windows Printer via SAMBA
AppSocket/HP JetDirect
Internet Printing Protocol
LPD/LPR Host or Printer
Other

Any help how to setup the printer.

Do i need to use command line or still I can do through GUI

I used to install other network printer on FC4, FC5

If I could not find the proper driver for our canon printer iR C3170.

Do I need to install one ? or the generic Linux one does the job.

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>>For the Canon this should be "print" or "pt1" depending on the controller. <<
I could not find such an option when I setup the printer via GUI !!!please advise ?

Regards
In that case the GUI most likely uses AppSocket, which does not use a remote queue name.
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>>In that case the GUI most likely uses AppSocket<<
I had tried this option , but I would not have been able to print a test page !!!!

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I have got two PCs one of them is desktop XP, and other is laptop FC7, with XP I can print no problem.

Printer is inside locked room, I will try to access that room to print configuration details, but meanwhile please look at these screenshots that obtained from the PC with XP OS.

http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/7736/allimagesuu1.jpg
There should be no problem. The PC connects to the printer on IP address 192.168.2.50 using a PCL5 driver.

If you use system-config-printer, specify that IP address, and specify a printer like the HP LaserJet 5 it should work just fine
The problem you'll have using a LAserJet 5 driver is that your printer has a lot more capabilities than the LJ5 (extra trays, stacker, A3 paper size etc). Unless you can find a driver specific for the IR3170 you won't be able to use those.
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Thanks hdhont the problem was solved here :
http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?p=875985#post875985
Well, I did tell you to use Appsocket and a PCL5 driver. You never mentioned that you were using the BJC-600 driver. And my comment about A3 and stacker etc still applies. A generic PCL5 driver won't know about those things.
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Thanks hdhondt

>>You never mentioned that you were using the BJC-600 driver<<
I do not remember that I had used BJC-600 driver, and this is what I have mentioned in my reply  to other board as well.

>>Appsocket and a PCL5 driver<<
Under Appsocket, I did not find PCL5 driver to use it
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>>The IRC3170 supports both PostScript and PCL, so a generic driver will do the job<<
May be you forgot to point to the quote above.
Iwould have expected an EE expert with more direct linux experience to give you a reply that was more to the point. But thanks for the points, zillah.