How to print from console with LPR?

Xeratul · 12-30-2010, 09:12 AM

Quote:

export PRINTER="DESKJET-710C"
cd ; lpr PDF/myfile.pdf

gives no printing at all.

However ,I do it with evince using this printer, well configured, and EVINCE (x11) prints the pages.

Please any help would be welcome

kind regards

Nylex · 12-30-2010, 09:18 AM

You could just do lpr -PDESKJET-710C PDF/myfile.pdf.

If you want to set the default printer, you can do so in ~/.cups/lpoptions, with a line like

Default printer printer-options,

where printer is to be replaced with the printer name and printer-options is replaced with any options that you want (for example, for duplex printing). This stuff can be taken care of by using the command lpoptions, too (as opposed to you doing it manually, I mean).

Xeratul · 12-30-2010, 04:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nylex

You could just do lpr -PDESKJET-710C PDF/myfile.pdf.

If you want to set the default printer, you can do so in ~/.cups/lpoptions, with a line like

Default printer printer-options,

where printer is to be replaced with the printer name and printer-options is replaced with any options that you want (for example, for duplex printing). This stuff can be taken care of by using the command lpoptions, too (as opposed to you doing it manually, I mean).

Hello,

I tried this method , but it did not work. I do not understand why actually, all looks fine, but visibly lpr does not work

Code:

lpr -PDESKJET-710C PDF/myfile.pdf

Nylex · 12-31-2010, 12:36 AM

Is CUPS running? If so, go to http://localhost:631 and check if there are any errors on the printer (there's probably a log file in /var/log/cups, so you can check that instead).