Re: CUPS

[Adam Funk <a24061@yahoo.com>]

On Friday 19 March 2004 06:20, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 10:03:12PM -0800, Arron Kau wrote:
>> I've gathered from doing some research on this that I am not the only
>> one to have problems with CUPS. I actually have it installed and
>> working (nominally). I can print from a shell terminal in KDE.
>> However, I _cannot_ print from any of the other programs that I've
>> tried (Openoffice, Evolution, Mozilla). The dialog that comes up with
>> these
> 
> Mozilla uses lpr by default. To get printing to work you'd need to
> install cupsys-bsd so that Mozilla can send an "lpr" command that gets
> translated into something the printer will hear.
> 
> apt-get install cupsys-bsd

In my experience, just installing cupsys-bsd didn't make lpr work
(output just disappeared).  I had to install magicfilter and run
magicfilterconfig.  Is that normal?