[ale] Parallel Port Hunting

[Sean Kilpatrick]

On Tuesday 05 September 2006 10:14, John Mills wrote:
| More symptoms, if not more history:
| 
| 1. System is SuSE-9.3 on brand-X laptop.
| 
| 2. Some apps print successfully: 'acroread' and 'Firefox' can hit both the 
| inkjet on the USB and the Okipage on the parallel port. 'acroread' gives 
| as its printer '/usr/bin/lp'.
| 

John,

I've run into this problem before and each time it has been that the
default print system for the printer has been mis-set.

I use KDE almost exclusively so that's what I know. <shrug>

KDE Control Center > Peripherals > Printers: check the page (for each
printer) and verify that the "Print system currently used:" is set to
CUPS and not to one of the LPR/LPD options.

If that doesn't solve the problem, try (from the desktop menu)
System Settings > Printing (you'll need the root password) > Printer
configuration and see if something is fouled up there.

HTH

Sean

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