On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 04:56:32AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Marius Amado Alves wrote: > >* Printing/CUPS * > >I managed to install cupsys via apt-get and added a printer with the web > >interface, but this printer does not show up in the print dialog of the > >applications. It's an HP DeskJet on the parallell port. What am I > >missing? > > [Rant] > I'd love to help you, but printing on Linux is _still_ a black art. I've > been using Debian exclusively on my boxes for about four years now, and > I generally just avoid printing if I can. Of course everyone's going to > come back on this comment and say "Use CUPS! It's ultra easy!" or "You > did replace the obsolete lpr with lprng, right?" and such, but then you > still have to tell Mozilla to print to "qtcups" or to "lpr -PmyPrinter > --use-secret-incantation" and configure OpenOffice.org (somehow . . .) > and, and, and, and it's just black magic as far as I can tell. And I'm > not a stupid person. So the short answer is, "Good luck!" > [/End_of_Rant]
I install cupsys-bsd, and in the "Print Command" dialog box of any application I'm printing from I enter "lp". I haven't used OpenOffice.org, but this works for everything else I've tried, including mozilla. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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