Problems Printing

Joseph A. Nagy, Jr jnagyjr1978 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 5 12:38:30 UTC 2013


On 03/05/13 06:19, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día Tuesday, March 05, 2013 a las 05:52:53AM -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr escribió:
>
>> On 03/05/13 04:29, Matthias Apitz wrote:
>>> El día Tuesday, March 05, 2013 a las 04:22:46AM -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr escribió:
>>>
>>>> The lpr error message is now gone, but no printing activity is going on. ):
>>>
>>> Try first printing a simple text file or even stdin from the cmd line,
>>> like:
>>>
>>> $ date | lpr -Pfoo
>>>
>>> if this works, check the CUPS log files what the problem might be when
>>> you print from your whatever graphical tool.
>>>
>>> 	matthias
>>>
>> # date | lpr -Pfoo
>> lpr: The printer or class does not exist.
>
> what is the name of your printer in CUPS? You named it "foo"?
> Please try it to configure as well as a Generic Postscript printer;
>
> 	matthias
>

Sorry, I haven't had sleep for 24 hours. It's named PIXMA.

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