Printing from Opera

Kruppa, Peter Ulrich ulrich at pukruppa.de
Thu Aug 25 06:53:37 UTC 2011



Am 25.08.2011 08:09, schrieb Polytropon:
> On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:01:50 +0200, Kruppa, Peter Ulrich wrote:
>> Sorry, I forgot to include the list -
>>
>> Am 24.08.2011 17:19, schrieb Polytropon:
>>> On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:38:45 +0200, Kruppa, Peter Ulrich wrote:
>>>> Opera really does work with Cups - you will see your printer's
>>>> network name in the printer dialog.
>>>
>>> I've installed CUPS and actually _can_ see the printer
>>> names in the dialog, but no printing takes place.
>>>
>>> Test: I loaded google's homepage and pressed Ctrl+P Enter.
>>>
>>> 	% lpq
>>> 	HP_LaserJet_4000_Series is ready and printing
>>> 	Rank    Owner   Job     File(s)              Total Size
>>> 	active  poly    20      Google - Opera       419840 bytes
>>>
>>> And few seconds later:
>>>
>>> 	% lpq
>>> 	HP_LaserJet_4000_Series is ready
>>> 	no entries
>>>
>>> But nothing appear in the printer. It works from any
>>> other application, even from command line.
>>>
>>> Note that _those_ lp* tools are belonging to CUPS.
>>
>> Which means - you really do use /usr/local/bin/lp and removed the system's
>> /usr/bin/lp* stuff?
>>
>> Just to be sure
>
> Just checked again. Even though I did not have CUPS_OVERWRITE_BASE=YES
> in /etc/make.conf when installing cups, I renamed the system's lp*
> tools so those of CUPS are being used:
>
> 	% which lpq lpr lprm lp
> 	/usr/local/bin/lpq
> 	/usr/local/bin/lpr
> 	/usr/local/bin/lprm
> 	/usr/local/bin/lp
>
> The system's tools are out of scope now.
>
> 	% ls /usr/bin/lp*
> 	/usr/bin/lp.bsd
> 	/usr/bin/lpq.bsd
> 	/usr/bin/lpr.bsd
> 	/usr/bin/lprm.bsd
>
> As I made sure from various programs, CUPS _can_ actually print.
> It just doesn't print from Opera.
Do opera's print jobs show up in the queue (With # lpq) or via browser
http://localhost:631 ?

Greetings

Peter.

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Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Wuppertal
Germany


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