Re: Printing and CUPS - 2 questions

[bxf4@psu.edu (Brian P. Flaherty)]

"Patrick Kirk" <patrick@kirks.net> writes:

> Hi all,
> 
> I thought I had printing working because from the CUPS web interface I can
> print a test page.  But that's all I can print!  lpr /etc/aliases or lpr
> /foo/anythiing else just shoots a blank sheet through.  When I print from
> samba, the print job seems to disappears.

Is the printer enabled?

> Question 1: how do I install lpadmin?  Everything on CUPS refers to this
> command but apt-get install cupsys didn't do it.  I really prefer a command
> line to a web interface so need this.

Install cups-client.  Then see the docs for lpadmin.  Getting your
printer started should be pretty straightforward.  The command for my
printer was this:

lpadmin -E -pyour_printer_name -vparallel:/dev/par0 -mnec1880.ppd

> 
> Question 2: what is the correct command to print if you are using CUPS?
 
lpr and lp both work for me.  lpr doesn't have all the device options
that lp has, so I use lp most of the time.  The CUPS User's manual is
full of these options and I refer to it a lot because I usually don't
remember the syntax.

Brian