Re: Unable to print from mozilla-firefox only
On Sunday 19 February 2006 07:33, Florian Kulzer wrote:
>John Halton wrote:
>> Jason M Cox wrote:
>>> This issue started when trying to print from mozilla-firefox. I
>>> choose file>print. I get the print dialog. Then click print and get
>>> a window titled "printing" and a progress bar as if it is piping it
>>> to lpr. The progress bar completes the "printing" window disappears
>>> and nothing prints. I check lpr KJobViewer and they have no jobs
>>> and show that the printer is ready and accepting jobs. I tried to
>>> research this i n the archives but couldn't find the same problem.
>>> Also checked Mozilla website to no avail. Then resorted to the
>>> chat irc.debian.org <http://irc.debian.org> #debian. where user
>>> kevix instructed me too run: apt-get install xprint after
>>> installing i restarted
>>> mozilla-firefox and still have the same issue. Please note that I
>>> am able to print from other non Mozilla browsers such as Konqueror.
>>> All help is greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Installing and using CUPS is worth doing anyway, as suggested by the
>> previous respondent, but the problem with mozilla-firefox sounds
>> like the same issue I had at one point.
>>
>> The solution to this (when using CUPS) proved to be as follows: go
>> into the print dialogue, then select "Properties" (I think - working
>> from memory here as FF 1.5 is different on this). You're looking for
>> an option that is labelled something like "Print command".
>>
>> When I did this, that option was set to something like "lpr
>> ${MOZ_PRINTER+NAME:+'-P'}${MOZ_PRINTER+NAME}". I changed this simply
>> to "lp" and after that everything printed fine.
>
>You can also use a command such as 'kprinter' (or the Gnome
> equivalent, I assume), then you have the mozilla printing fully
> integrated in your desktop environment. This makes it easy to select
> duplexing, more than one page on each side, etc. as is appropriate
> for each individual printjob.
>
Now that I didn't know, thanks a bunch man!
>Regards,
> Florian
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