using lpr to print to a cups printer

["Patrick Wiseman" <pwiseman@gmail.com>]

Sorry, list - I wasn't paying attention to Gmail's reply field, and meant to send this to the list.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Patrick Wiseman
 <pwiseman@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 21, 2006 5:54 PM
Subject: Re: using lpr to print to a cups printer
To: "j-debian_lists@rabid-hamster.com
" <j-debian_lists@rabid-hamster.com>

On 2/21/06, j-debian_lists@rabid-hamster.com <j-debian_lists@rabid-hamster.com> wrote:

I used cups to set up a printer via ipp and it works for kde programs and
gtk programs, but anything that uses lpr (including firefox) does not work.
How can I get lpr to use the cups printer?

Install the cupsys-bsd package, which provides CUPS-aware versions of lp, lpr, etc.

Patrick