On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Wayne Topa <linux...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 04/26/2011 11:17 AM, Anthony Campbell wrote: >> >> On 26 Apr 2011, Wayne Topa wrote: >>> >> [snip] >> >>> My /etc/printcap only lists a non-existing dot matrix printer >>> and lpr works fine here. >>> >>> Try this >>> ~# which lpr >>> /usr/bin/lpr >>> ~#dpkg -S /usr/bin/lpr >>> cups-client: /usr/bin/lpr >>> >>> If cups-client is not shown then remove the lpr package and install >>> the cups-client package. >>> >>> Don't know what else to suggest. >>> >>> Wayne > > REPLACE all mention of cups-client with cups-bsd above. >> >> Perhaps not what the OP wanted, but I find Cups a nightmare and always >> use magicfilter. Very easy to configure and always works for me, with at >> least 5 different printers. > > I to have an old testing partition that will not print with Cups. It hasn't > for about 3 years now. I used magicfilter to get it working though. > > When Cups works it is great, it is working now on 3 partitions now, stable, > stable upgraded to wheezy and stable upgraded to sid. I also have the > Magicfilter package for them, just in case. ;-) > > Wayne >
I'm pretty sure you need the cups-bsd package to get the BSD style print commands. As you said, lp mytestfile works but lpr mytestfile fails. I usually only use command line printing if I'm testing new queues, so something like lp -d MyNewQueue /usr/share/cups/data/testprint will give me what I need. If you have not tried the web interface, I highly recommend it. I don't have the cups-bsd packages installed, so I can't speak much about using the lpr commands with cups. I haven't used magicfilter as cups has worked well in my environment: samba with Windows and Apple clients. -- Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/banlktimckafbawzer0otz9unn5aobxo...@mail.gmail.com
