On Sat November 21 2009, Wayne wrote:
In the cups interface http://localhost:631/printers pick the printer
and, in squeeze anyway, select in the administration dropdown select
Modify printer. Select Continue on the first two selections until you
get to the 3rd which allows you to select different PPDs. I tried all
the selections for the HP6P and found that the HP LaserJet 6P
foomatic/ljdith worked best for me. Once you highlight your selection
click Modify Printer. You can then set the options you want the printer
to have, like dpi, etc. Then find the 'print test page' to try it out.
I am happy with my setup in CUPS, that is not the issue. the Gutenprint
printer driver is the best I have found for my Epson R380 printer. My issue
is with the lpr.log file:
# more lpr.log
Nov 21 05:42:29 paulandcilla lpd[11629]: /dev/lp0: No such file or directory
Nov 21 05:43:30 paulandcilla lpd[11702]: /dev/lp0: No such file or directory
this is from lpd, not CUPS ( I think ??) and I am not sure what it means or
how to get rid of it. Should I not have lpr installed? do I need it?
# dpkg --list lpr
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii lpr 1:2008.05.17 BSD lpr/lpd line printer spooling system
if I try to remove it, it also wants to remove:
libwine-print lsb-core