Printer Installation
Frank Shute
frank at shute.org.uk
Sat Jul 12 22:52:11 UTC 2008
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 12:45:58PM -0700, Rem P Roberti wrote:
>
> This has been an ongoing problem for me because of my lack of knowledge
> about the processes involved. I have a postscript printer which was
> installed using CUPS via the KDE printer wizard. The printer works fine
> when printing from X apps, but I am unable to print from the command
> line. My main concern is to be able to print from Mutt, but when I try
> to do that I get an error message from Mutt telling me,"lpr: lp: unknown
> printer." I would appreciate being pointed in the right direction here.
>
> Rem
Not a direct answer to your question but there is an option you can
set in your ~/.muttrc
I've got this in mine:
set print_command="a2ps -1 > ~/mail.ps; gv ~/mail.ps"
This allows me to view the mail before printing it from gv.
gv and a2ps are in ports.
Regards,
--
Frank
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