Problems with printing

[Frank Wißmann]

Hi, folks!

Warren Block schrieb:
> On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Frank Wi?mann wrote:
> 
>> The beast does it. At least, it does print from the command line like 
>> "cat /etc/rc.conf|lpr".
> 
> Excellent.
> 
>> The printer does not accept a job from a GUI application like 
>> "Firefox" or "Thunderbird". So how can I go on from now?
> 
> That may be a function of the desktop environment.  With xfce4, 
> Settings/Printing set to "BSD/LPR", Firefox prints fine.

Well, I use KDE. But there seems to be set all to "printing BSD style/lpr".

> Worst case, you can enter lpr in the Command Line box of the Firefox 
> printing dialog.  Or /usr/bin/lpr if it's wrongly trying to run the CUPS 
> lpr.

I tried that, but it only produces pages of source code when I start 
using "/usr/bin/lpr".
Seems I should ask in a KDE-related newsgroup for that.

Greetings Frank

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