Re: Setting up a postscript printer

["Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

"S.Salman Ahmed" wrote:
  >>>>>> "c" == csj  <csj@mindgate.net> writes:
  >    c>  Can you (the original poster) print to file using your CUPS
  >    c> setup? If you can print to file, but not to the printer, it's
  >    c> probably a printer-queue problem.  My own experience: I spent two
  >    c> day figuring out that the proper command isn't "lpr" or "lpr -P
  >    c> lp0" but "lpr -P lp foo.txt."
  >    c> 
  >
  >I am the original poster.
  >
  >What's the difference b/w "lpr foo.txt" and "lpr -P lp foo.txt" ?
  >
There is no difference, so long as lp is the first printer defined in
/etc/printcap.  -P is needed to address any printer apart from the default.

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