I recently just installed Slackware 9.1. I setup CUPS and am able to print a test page through the web interface. However, I dont know how to print anywhere else. If I print from epiphany or abiword by clicking the print icon nothing happens at all. In a terminal the lpr command is not recognized either. Is there another comman? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!!!

I just went through this. The cups web interface writes an incomplete printcap file if LPRng is installed. I removed the LPRng package and then went to the cups interface and removed the printer. Then I removed CUPs and rebooted. Installed CUPS back and the re-install the printer from the CUPs web interface which writes a new printcap file. I may have had some extra step but it works and took about 5 minutes.

Cups Fix from a previous thread

Thanks, I will try that. I removed the LPrng package already and reinstalled my printer through the web interface but I did not reinstall CUPS package. I will try that and see if I have any luck.

Works great now. Thanks!

I noticed, after configuring CUPS through the web interface, whenever I ran 'checkpc -f' it would say my printcap file was missing an 'sd' (spool directory) entry.

I will have to try uninstalling LPRng later tonight (I'm in Winblows right now)

I can also print the test page after configured it with webInterface. But I dun know how to print other document.

I used to format a text-file with a2ps n redirect its output to a file, then view it with ghostview, n if it satisfy me than I print it with "lpr thatOutputFile".

I tried to use it n lpr said that it can not connect to myEpson lpd something I created with webInterface ..

After "removepkg lprng-3.8.22-i486-1" I can not even find those lpr,lpq stuff ..

Q: How to print a preformated file (postscript) with cups ? It seemed to support postscript level 3 as stated on TestPage. Actually epsonStylus Color 480 is a inkjet printer, if cups can print a postscript file on it would be great .. ?

Answer from http://www.cups.org/faq.php?29

What File Formats are Supported?

The basic CUPS distribution supports the following file formats on all printers:

* Text (many 8-bit charsets + UTF-8)
* PostScript
* PDF
* HP-GL/2
* Image Files:
o BMP
o GIF
o JPEG
o PhotoCD (baseline resolution only)
o PIX
o PNG
o PNM (PBM, PGM, PPM)
o SGI RGB
o Sun Raster
o TIFF (single page images only)

The current distribution also includes rules to allow automatic raw printing of PCL (HP), ESC/P (EPSON), and PostScript files from Windows clients.
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I just removed the printer added by using webInterface, removepkg-ed cups.., installpkg cups.., then those lp,lpr,lpq tools are all back .., but still cannot print the raw file/postscript

[root@tx97e:~/etc/named]$ lpr aPostscriptFile
[root@tx97e:~/etc/named]$ lpq
sc480 is ready
no entries <---------- Should show the queue/job

thanks, shepper. that was easy.

Thank for wut, it has not printed yet darling ..
It worked now, cool

Hi

lp, lpr, ... are just symbolic links to either the cups-version (lp-cups, lpr-cups, ...) or the lprng-version (lp-lprng, lpr-lprng, ...) of them.
Try: ls -l /usr/bin/lp

The package installed the latest claims the links at installation and removes them at its removal...

If you simply set the links correct (ln -sf /usr/bin/lp-cups /usr/bin/lp) for lp, lpr, lprm, lpq, lpstat and lpc (resides in /usr/sbin) it seems to work. 8-)

It seems to me there is nothing wrong with /etc/printcap.


Pollyanna