[Wylug-discuss] Re: [Wylug-help] Lost network printing

[John Hodrien]

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Anne Wilson wrote:

> 'Printer' is correct.  The server name, though should be anne-linux, not
> Anne-Linux.  Is that significant, or just the way it is reported?  It's
> definitely lower case in cups/client.conf.

I figure it's just how it's reported.

> That works - and the duplex happens, so it's configuring correctly for
> the printer.

Cool, so cups is clearly merry.

> Attempting the same print from kwrite only gives me 'lp' as an option.
> If I select that I see
>
> /usr/bin/lpr -P 'lp' '=#1'
> /tmp/kde-anne/kdeprint_W6YWpOZz : execution failed with message:
> lpr: error - unable to print file: client error not found

I'm going to checkout here, as I really don't know KDE well enough.  Is your
/etc/printcap wrong perhaps?  Only this is trying to print to a printer called
'lp' which I assume doesn't exist.

jh

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