Re: Problems with cups printing with 2.8..

[John Affleck <lists+gnome-print lists oddment net>]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 10:03:24AM -0600, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
> Apparently libgnomeprintcups doesn't see any printers. 	Can you print
> from the command line?  Try:
> 
> lpr -Pprinter /etc/printcap    where you replace "printer" with one of
> the printers mentioned in your /etc/printcap file.
> 
> This does sound like a problem with your printing set-up though! The
> libgnomeprintlpd module simply pipes the postscript into lpr. And
> vlearly lpr is being found.

Gah.  Thanks - that was just the slap I needed - I neglectd to mention
that I actually had two versions of cups installed - the 'standard'
one without headers in /usr, and a local copy in an area accessible to
me with headers for the compilation.  I was picking my 'private' copy
of the library without any of the correct configuration.  Which is why
I could print from lpr some of the time (when it used the library and
configuration from /usr ) and not others (when it used my unconfigured
library).

Anyway, problem solved.  Thanks!

	John A.