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No lp-cups? How do I print now?
I am using Debian with cups and kde 3.2. My printer works fine, I can print in any KDE program just fine (like kword or kwrite). But when I try to print in anything else (like mozilla or the gimp) it of course asks for the command and I dont know what to enter. But default I know its lpr, but lpr dosnt work because my printcap file is empty. I have searched around and found that I sould be able to use the lp-cups command to print, but in debian there is no such command I guess.
Does anyone know how to print in Debian?
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im not at my box right now but i think its lpr-cups
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lpr-cups is still not a command
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Just do what I do -- print it to a file (it'll be PostScript format), then use gs to send the file to the printer. Who needs a spooler?
gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sOutputFile=/dev/lp0 -sDEVICE=ljet4 inputfile.ps
Change /dev/lp0 to your printer's port's device node, and change ljet4 to whatever print driver you use (gs -help gives a list of possible devices, or see linuxprinting.org).
But in all seriousness, if you can't get the spooler to work (I never could), this might be an option.
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i will but only as a last resort... if anyone knows how to get lpr-cups working in debian please let me know!
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found it. If anyone is interested when using gnome the command is gtklp (sarge). I am sure there is a separate one for KDE too but I use gnome so I dont know it. Anyways, I hope this helps some one because it really is useful.
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install cupsys-bsd for the cli version of lpr.
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