CUPS "test-page" prints fine, nothing else.. (freebsd-5.4/amd64)

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Bill Schoolcraft <runfreebsd at yahoo.com> writes:
> I have a HP 840c and it's connected remotely on my network with a fixed
> ipaddress and every box on my network can print to it and so can
> FreeBSD as long as it's from the CUPS interface/setup GUI and it's a
> test page, other than that -- zilch.
>
> I can't find anything anywhere that will give me a clue as to why this
> happens.

I'll bet you're using the wrong version of lpr.  You need to use
/usr/local/bin/lpr (from the cups-lpr port) instead of /usr/bin/lpr
(from the base system).  The best solution is probably to add
NO_LPR=YES to /etc/make.conf, then replace /usr/bin/lp[qr] with
symlinks to /usr/local/bin/lp[qr].

DES
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