Re: how to get MOzilla to print to Cups printer through kprint
If you are not able to print at all, these are the instructions you
need. Follow them exactly.
http://www.linuxprinting.org/cups-doc.html
If you have a DeskJet like I do, you will need to download the tar file
and compile the driver locally. You can find the tar file here with
instructions at: http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/install.php
Inside the above file you will find the PPD and Foomatic files. I know
this sounds like a bunch of hoops to jump through but it does really
work by taking one step at a time.
Once the above is finished, you will be able to print with Mozilla using
the following command.
Goto File-Print. With Printer: PostScript/default selected, click
Properties. Using the instruction I showed in the begining put the
following command in the Print Command area:
lp -d fool -o PrintoutMode=Draft
${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME:+'-P'}${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME}
The print-spooler is named fool in the example at the top.
I just did all of this over the weekend. Its sweet once you get it
working.
Ross
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 00:06, Donald Spoon wrote:
> Jeremy Petzold wrote:
> > On Tuesday 27 May 2003 08:08 pm, Donald Spoon wrote:
> >
> >>Jeremy Petzold wrote:
> >>
> >>>how can you get mozilla to print to the cups printer I have? be it
> >>>through kprint or directly through cups? I could not find any info on it
> >>>in mozilla help so I am hoping that one of you may have had an experience
> >>>with this.
> >>>
> >>>thanks,
> >>>
> >>>Jeremy
> >>
> >>If you have the "cupsys-bsd" package installed, then the
> >>"Default/Postscript" selection in Mozilla works just fine.... for me.
> >>Recent changes in X (from testing) have introduced Xprint on my system,
> >>which I am just starting to expore. It is supposed to interface recent
> >>versions of Mozilla with CUPS too, but I don't know enuf about it to be
> >>able to advise you...sorry.
> >>
> >>Cheers,
> >>-Don Spoon
> >
> >
> > doe sit just send the data directly to cups?
> >
> >
>
> I would guess so... I don't have anything else installed on my system
> that would accept it! (Like lprng, lpr, etc).
>
> I don't really know the physical routing the Mozilla stuff takes, but it
> eventually winds up in the CUPS printing system without any extra effort
> on my part. Just hit "print" in Mozilla, accept the "default/postscript
> printer" and it does it's thing...
>
> -Don Spoon-
>
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