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Subject: Re: Problems with printing
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On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Frank Wi?mann wrote:

> The beast does it. At least, it does print from the command line like 
> "cat /etc/rc.conf|lpr".

Excellent.

> The printer does not accept a job from a GUI application like 
> "Firefox" or "Thunderbird". So how can I go on from now?

That may be a function of the desktop environment.  With xfce4, 
Settings/Printing set to "BSD/LPR", Firefox prints fine.

Worst case, you can enter lpr in the Command Line box of the Firefox 
printing dialog.  Or /usr/bin/lpr if it's wrongly trying to run the CUPS 
lpr.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA