printing to a HP Deskjet 812C printer

Antonio Olivares olivares14031 at gmail.com
Thu Jul 28 01:24:01 UTC 2011


On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Antonio Olivares
<olivares14031 at gmail.com> wrote:
> @ all,
>
> I restarted machine and I can print from command line :)
>
> [olivares at quadcore ~/Documents]$ cat Document1.txt |  lpr -P Deskjet
> [olivares at quadcore ~/Documents]$ lpq -a
> Deskjet:
> Deskjet is ready and printing
> Rank   Owner      Job  Files                                 Total Size
> active olivares   2    (standard input)                      10405 bytes
>
> [olivares at quadcore ~/Documents]$
>
> Now how do I configure apps like Firefox, evince, LibreOffice to print?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Antonio
>

Ok I have figured it out :)

I need to change `lpr` to `lpr -P Deskjet` and it will print.

Thanks to all who have advised/helped me with this issue.

Regards,

Antonio


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