On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2:28 AM, Helmut Jarausch <jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote: > On 23 Feb, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:53 PM, walt <w41...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On 02/23/2010 06:23 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> I'm looking around in vain for info on why some apps (Open Office >>>> apps for instance) see printers while other apps (Evolution and >>>> Firefox for instance) do not. Apps that don't work seem to offer print >>>> to file and print to LPR. On the other hand Open Office provides only >>>> the obscenely ugly CUPS printer name >>>> "HP_LaserJet_M1522nf_MFP_192.168.1.5". >>> > > Just one note, > are you using a binary version of firefox, etc, on a 64 bit machine? > I had the same problem here. > This was easily solved by replacing the binary version by the native > (freshly compiled) version here. > Helmut. > > -- > Helmut Jarausch
Thanks but no. In fact the one binary thing on the system that comes to mind is Open Office in which printing is working. It's the stuff I'm building that isn't! - Mark
