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Subject: Re: Printing from KDE
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>One of the things I simply haven't been able to figure out yet,
>and can't find any documentation for, is how to set up printing
>from KDE on FreeBSD. KDE's docs claim that it has an "Add printer"
>wizard, but this utility seems to be absent from the FreeBSD port...
>as are the drivers for specific printers (in this case, they need
>to print to HP LaserJets using PCL4). Does anyone out there know
>(a) where the missing utility and drivers are; and (b) how to
>configure them?
>

Forsake the wizard for ports/print/apsfilter and lpd

KDE works perfectly for me, but I had 2 KDE related printing problems...

First: many programs default to A4 paper size, and
Second: in konqueror the default "print to UNIX LPD Print System"
  option was using some strange set of options, that would not work.
  I changed the setting to "Print Through an External Program" and
  just set it to lpr and it works fine.

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