printing in ver 1.6

Robert Graham Merkel rgmerk@mira.net
Wed, 13 Jun 2001 13:24:16 +1000


On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 14:06:08 jens wrote:
> I am having a few problems getting a printout and I was wondering if
> anybody 
> might be able to help.
> When I first tried out 1.6 I had consistent crashes trying to print but
> thru 
> the magic of dumb luck this seems all sorted now and I do get a dialog
> asking 
> me where to print to. I can print to file just fine but nothing ever gets
> 
> printed to paper. I have two printers set up via cups, one parallel and
> one 
> USB. Neither one shows print jobs arriving. The default printer is 'lpr'
> and 
> neither it nor my other printer names seem to work. I also get the
> following 
> error message in the terminal window:
> 
> ** sh: lpr: command not found
> Warning **: Missing beginpage in print job
> 

What happens when you type "which lpr" at the command prompt?


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