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

From: Mike Manchester (mchester@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Jul 18 2002 - 14:20:02 EDT


This tells me, no system default destination
Mike M.

Matt Miller wrote:

>On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 10:12, Mike Manchester 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.
>>
>
>`lpstat -d` will show your default printer.
>
>in .bash_profile (or .profile) add:
>
> alias lpr="lpr -P epsonc60"
>
>This will set a lpr alias to refer to the correct printer destination.
>
>You could also add a PRINTER variable:
>
> export PRINTER=lpr
>



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