[plug] cups/lp

[Marc Wiriadisastra]

I had that same problem initially with my debian install.  I installed 
my printer and tested the printer with obvious test pages and once that 
was done it all fell into place.

Mind you mine is not 0.9 its still the one that deb sid uses which is 
0.8 I think


HTH

Marc

Craig Ringer wrote:

> Shayne O'Neill wrote:
>
>> Ok. Installed cupsys-client + cupsysy-bsd
>>
>> Still same problem. the cups web interface happily pumps out test pages.
>>
>> but in firefox I only get these options
>> lp@:64
>> xp_ps_spooldir_tmp_Xprintjobs@:64
>> xp_pdf_spooldir_tmp_Xprintjobs@:64
>
>
> It looks like FireFox is trying to use XPrint (*hiss* *spit*). This is 
> unlikely to work unless you have it all configured.
>
> Try
>
> $ export MOZILLA_POSTSCRIPT_PRINTER_LIST="spaceship"
> $ mozilla-firefox
>
> and see if that helps. You may need to use 'print' not 'spaceship' as 
> your description wasn't entirely clear about which was correct.
>
> It's possible that the env var has changed name for Firefox, or that 
> firefox does things differently, but this is worth a try.
>
> If only Mozilla, Thunderbird and FireFox would just link to libcups so 
> they could "just work" like most other apps these days. *grumble*.
>
> -- 
> Craig Ringer
>
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