KDE - lpr clash

[Carlos Sousa <csousa@tvtel.pt>]

On my system, KDE applications that use the "centralized KDE printing 
facilities" cannot print. Printing from Konqueror, for instance, 
generates an error saying "/usr/bin/lpr -P 'lp' '-#1' somefile failed ...".

I've managed to track this down to my lpr command not accepting the 
command-line option "-#", which specifies the number of copies to be 
printed out. The man page mentions "Often a site will disable this 
feature...", so I've spent the last 2 hours sweeping through the WHOLE 
/etc directory and all lp* manpages trying to figure out how this option 
may have been disabled on my system by some default Debian configuration.

Without any success.

Is the Debian lpr compiled without the "-#" option? Is there some 
obscure lpr/lpd config file buried somewhere in my system specifying 
this behaviour? Should I just give up and try something like CUPS or 
LPRng instead?

Any ideas?

TIA,
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Carlos Sousa