This one time, at band camp, lameth said: > Russell wrote: > > >lameth wrote: > > > > > >>Okay I've installed cupsys and cupsys-gimp-print. I pointed my browser > >>to http://localhost:631 and set up my epson color stylus 600. When I > >>print a test page it prints beautifully. My problem is none of my > >>programs can use the printer. All of them want to print to lpr or in the > >>case of mozilla, Postscript/default. When I try to print anythiing > >>nothing happens. > >> > >>I tried lpoptions -d epson (which is what I named my printer). Is there > >>a dpkg-reconfigure <whatever> that will do a system wide configuration > >>for all my programs to us the printer I just installed? <snip - config files look fine> Two things: steve:~$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/lpr cupsys-bsd: /usr/bin/lpr do you have cupsys-bsd installed? steve:~$ ls -l /etc/printcap* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Sep 28 21:15 /etc/printcap -> /etc/printcap.cups -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 136 Oct 11 16:08 /etc/printcap.cups Most programs read their printer options from /etc/printcap. If you want them to live nicely with CUPS, the above works well. HTH, Steve -- BOFH excuse #142: new guy cross-connected phone lines with ac power bus.
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