Re: Cups: printer installed but not printing

2011-08-04 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 04 Aug 2011, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 17:06:48 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > Show us the output of: > > lpr -P your_printer /etc/hosts > > Greetings, > > -- > Camaleón > Thanks, Camaleon and everyone else who has helped. Everything is working now; the solution was to s

Re: Cups: printer installed but not printing

2011-08-04 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2011-08-04 17:06:48 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I did that but still I get the error message with lpr -no default > destination. Which libcups2 do you use? In my case, with libcups2 1.4.7-1: ypig:~> lpq lpq: error - no default destination available. and with libcups2 1.4.6-11+b1: ypig:

Re: Cups: printer installed but not printing

2011-08-04 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 17:06:48 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 04 Aug 2011, Brian wrote: >> On Thu 04 Aug 2011 at 14:09:45 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: >> >> > But what IS the default print queue in Cups? I can't find that >> > specified in any of the docs I've looked at. Or do I just create

Re: Cups: printer installed but not printing - SOLVED

2011-08-04 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 04 Aug 2011, Dom wrote: > > To show the current default queue: lpstat -d > > To list and show the status of all queues: lpstat -a > > To set the CUPS default queue: lpadmin -d queuename > > -- > Dom > > Thanks to everyone for patience and replies. Printing is now working following sugges

Re: Cups: printer installed but not printing

2011-08-04 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 04 Aug 2011, Brian wrote: > On Thu 04 Aug 2011 at 14:09:45 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > But what IS the default print queue in Cups? I can't find that specified > > in any of the docs I've looked at. Or do I just create it? > > At http://localhost:631/printers/ there should be a 'Set A

Re: Cups: printer installed but not printing

2011-08-04 Thread Brian
On Thu 04 Aug 2011 at 14:09:45 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > But what IS the default print queue in Cups? I can't find that specified > in any of the docs I've looked at. Or do I just create it? At http://localhost:631/printers/ there should be a 'Set As Default' option. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Cups: printer installed but not printing

2011-08-04 Thread Dom
On 04/08/11 14:09, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 04 Aug 2011, Brian wrote: On Thu 04 Aug 2011 at 10:24:38 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: no system default destination You haven't told CUPS what the default print queue is. It can be done from the browser interface. But what IS the default prin

Re: Cups: printer installed but not printing

2011-08-04 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 04 Aug 2011, Brian wrote: > On Thu 04 Aug 2011 at 10:24:38 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > This detected my Samsung ML2571N without problems and I thought > > everything was fine. But, with the recommended driver, printing a test > > page gives a blank sheet. > > Which package did you ins

Re: Cups: printer installed but not printing

2011-08-04 Thread Brian
On Thu 04 Aug 2011 at 10:24:38 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > This detected my Samsung ML2571N without problems and I thought > everything was fine. But, with the recommended driver, printing a test > page gives a blank sheet. Which package did you install to get the driver? >

Cups: printer installed but not printing

2011-08-04 Thread Anthony Campbell
My /dev/usb/lp0 disappeared (again) and after two days' work trying to get it back I finally gave up and installed the dreaded Cups. This detected my Samsung ML2571N without problems and I thought everything was fine. But, with the recommended driver, printing a test page gives a blank sheet. And