On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 12:34:28PM -0700, Rem P Roberti wrote: > > above shows that your printer is "GENERIC PostScript Printer". Is > > that what http://localhost:631 reports? > > Yes. > > > > What distro are you running? Have you *ever* been able to print from > > the cl? What printer and what name is assigned in cups? > > Actually, I'm running FreeBSD 7.0, and I have never been able to print > from the command line while using a CUPS installed printer. > Localhost:631 does indeed report the printer as GENERIC PostScript > Printer.
On my debian-machine I had to install cups-bsd to have a working lpr from the command-line... Is it installed on your machine? For printing out of mutt, I use muttprint, and it works fine. sigi