Re: printing from netscape
> How do you print to a remote printer from netscape? When I click
> on the "print" button, I get a screen with the print command
> defaulting to "lpd."
Are you sure that the print command says lpd? It should say lpr. lpr
is the "client" that sends a page to the printer. lpd is the daemon.
i.e. the server.
> Is there some other place I need to specify which printer in my
> printcap I want to print to? I've got my printcap setup with a
> couple of different printers, named by their host name. If I
> just click "PRINT" when taking the defaults, it gives me an error:
> "lpd: Fatal error - another print spooler is using TCP printer
> port, possibly lpd process '139'"
Change the print command to lpr -Pprinter_name. I am assuming that you
have set up the printcap entries OK.
Sidenote: Netscape Navigator / Communicator generates postscript of the
page that needs to be printed and passes it on to the print command.
This lets you make nice and interesting things like printing
back-to-back and 2-uped pages using psnup etc.
Thaths
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