[Gllug] Printing woes

[Martin A. Brooks]

Hi John,

On Friday, April 16, 2004, John Hearns wrote:
> Has anybody got experiences with printing on SuSE 9?


> I've installed CUPS on a system, and used the CUPS web interface
> to configure two networked printers (HP Laserjets).
> I can print test pages to the printers.

> I've chkconfiged on cups-lpd

> But when I try lpr I get:
> lpr: error - scheduler not responding!

> Similarly  lpq: get-jobs failed: client-error-charset-not-supported

> Anyone met this before?
> The errors are pretty generic lpr errors, so I Can;t get a handle on
> what else I can tweak/configure.

> Any help appreciated.

> (ps. might not reply directly, as will be on a train this afternoon)

Are you using the CUPS-specific BSD compatibility versions of lpr/lpq?


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