On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 17:50 +0200, deloptes wrote:
> michael wrote:
> 
> > It is local on this machine's parallel port (I've just been in the habit
> > of lpr rather than lp but will that matter?). My lpstat -a gives
> > $ lpstat -a
> > laserjet accepting requests since Wed 15 Sep 2010 22:23:14 BST
> > and I know it's connected okay (it just prints the p/s file rather than
> > interprets it)
> 
> do you have cups-bsd installed? I think this was doing th lpr thing
> 

You rock!
No idea why it was needed, but just installed cups-bsd and it printed
fine :)
Hooray & ta, M


> usb or direct parallel doesn't matter. I have usb2parallel adaptor (younger
> mainboard)
> 
> regards
> 
> 


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