Re: [Evolution] printer configuration

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 23:58, DuWayne R Holsbeck wrote:
> If you set $PRINTER=defaultlp server in the user's environment, using
> LPRng, it does the same thing. Which solves the current issue. But it
> would be nice to give the user a choice. 

Hmm, so with lprng then you use

lpr -P$PRINTER < file

to print

Or ...

Do you use

lp -d $PRINTER < file

to print? (a-la solaris?).  Or something else entirely?  And can you
send the printer postscript, or do you have to send it pcl?

You see, its not that simple.  Systems have different printing command
interfaces and even 'standard' filters (although as a rule unix systems
support postscript).

The gnome printing interfaces need a bit of work just yet before we can
rely on them to provide this sort of information ...  They *will* have
to be solved problems for sun/others to use gnome as a rule, but as yet,
they're *not quite* solved.

> On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 08:41, Dominic Amann wrote: Anders Näslund wrote:
>
>     DuWayne,
>     
>     If You set up Your users with CUPS printing, it will automagical send
>     the "lpr" command to the default CUPS printer.
>     However, You will not be able to select which CUPS printer (as in
>     OpenOffice)...but it's a start.
>       
> > From what I read, the person does not necessarily need the printers
> automagically detected (a dificult task, apparently).  Could there not
> simply be an interface where an administrator could manually list a
> number of printers by specific *nix commands, and the user interface
> would then pick from this list in a drop down. This list could be stored
> in an evo-specific file such as "evo_printers", which defaults to 
> containing say, lpr?
>
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