Re: Printing trouble driving me crazy.
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On Tuesday 24 September 2002 09:51 am, Johannes Graumann wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I installed lpr-ppd, printfilters-ppd and printtool through dselect.
> I used printtool to set up our printer and have the problem that I can't
> print to it now. When (as a user) I do 'lpr -Plj8150 maccoss_2002.pdf &&
> lpq' I get: no entries. 'ps aux | grep lpd' gives me:
> root 23485 0.0 0.0 2048 732 ? S 09:33 0:00
> /usr/sbin/lpd - so that seems to be running.
> I have attached /etc/printcap, lpc 'status' and ls -l /var/spool/lpd
> output.
>
> Please give me a hint. What am I doing wrong?
>
> Joh
Hello Joh:
IMO, the thing you did wrong was not installing cups. I think it has to be
the most user-friendly way to get a printer up and running on any distro of
Linux. The driver base is huge and the ability to configure drivers on the
fly is awesome. I migrated from Lprng to cups on this box, and I just
completed a new install of Woody with cups on my laptop. Both run perfectly.
gl to you
tatah
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