Re: [SLUG] cups printing with RH 7.3 no default printer

From: Smitty (a.smitty@verizon.net)
Date: Thu Jul 18 2002 - 11:05:55 EDT


I am using SuSE 7.3 and lprng, but I think you need to identify your printer
as lp0 or printer1, or something of this nature that can be configured in
CUPS. epsonc60 is the brand and model of your printer which is necessary to
pick the correct driver, but for nothing else.
Smitty

On Thursday 18 July 2002 10:12, you wrote:
> Is anyone using cups and Redhat 7.3? I have cups setup to print to my
> Epson C60 and all is working, kinda. I can't seem to get a default
> printer setup. I've tried the man pages and did the lpadmin -E -h
> localhost -P epsonc60 as stated in the man pages. I've also searched
> google but still can't get programs such as mozilla or gedit to print to
> a default printer. I can get them to print by doing lpr -P epsonc60. But
> what a pain as I have to define this everytime I need to print from the
> application. What the heck am I missing? I don't remember having this
> problem with Cups on 7.2 I have also removed the LPR and printer-conf as
> per the Cups instructions.
> Thanks for any insight into this problem
> Mike M.



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