Problems Printing

[Matthias Apitz]

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

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