Re: Printing problems

[Conrado Badenas <Conrado.Badenas@uv.es>]

Mono wrote:
> thinks that it's been printed and nothing turns up in the spool.  Where,
> exactly, is my printer?

In order to know which /dev/lp* is connected actually to your printer
you can use a simple test as root (or user pertaining to group lp) in
order to have write permission to the device:

# ls -l /dev/lp*
# echo "Hello world" > /dev/lp0
# echo "Hello world" > /dev/lp1
...

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