[ale] Cups strikes again.

Jim Philips jcphil at mindspring.com
Thu May 23 18:43:16 EDT 2002


You should just be able to specify "kprinter" to print from any KDE app. Do 
you see your printer in the "Printing Manager" from within the KDE Control 
Center?

On Thursday 23 May 2002 01:43 pm, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> I have my nice clean cups system installed.  Printing the test page from
> the web interface works great.
>
> "lpr /etc/fstab" blows out, unknown printer if I set it to the name
> defined in the web interface.  If I unset it:
>
> {1}:vampire:/home/rharris/CrossOver>unset PRINTER
> {0}:vampire:/home/rharris/CrossOver>lpq
> no entries
> {0}:vampire:/home/rharris/CrossOver>lpr /etc/printcap
> lpr: connect: No such file or directory
> jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.
> {0}:vampire:/home/rharris/CrossOver>
>
>
> How the heck do I use lpr to print to my printer?  I'd like to enable
> this so I can use things like konqueror under kde to print.
>
> :wq!
>
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> Robert L. Harris                |  Micros~1 :
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> FYI:
>  perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
>
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