Re: Printing from thunderbird/firefox

[Martin J Hooper <martinjh@blueyonder.co.uk>]

Michael Friendly wrote:
> I'm using gnome 2.8/debian unstable with the latest firefox and 
> thunderbird.  When I try to print, the default printer in my
> printer panel is 'lex720@:64' and using it prints tiny (1/4 size)
> pages one up.
>
> using about:config reveals:
>
>
> print.printer_lex720@:64.print_command   user set   string   lpr 
> ${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME:+'-P}$MOZ_PRINTER_NAME}
>
> What can I do or change so that printing works correctly? With
> mozilla, there was the same printer entry, with the same behavior,
> but there was also a 'Postscript default' printer that had the
> correct behavior.


Are you using KDE?  If so try changing the print command to kprinter
--stdin which will then run the KDE Printing dialog instead of using
the settings from Firefox...