CentOS 6 & gnucash 2.4.15 Printing problems...

[Fred Smith]

On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 03:12:06PM -0500, Robert Heller wrote:
> I recently upgraded my system to CentOS 6 and installed the version of gnucash 
> in the EPEL repo (2.4.15).  Everything works properly, *EXCEPT* printing is 
> weird:
> 
> I have a PostScript Laser printer (a small Brother B&W model) and when I went
> to print some invoices, I had a problem: it sent PDF code directly to the
> printer (the printer was not amused, nor was I). I am able to print to file
> (selecting Postscript format output) and then sending the output.ps file to
> the printer with the lp command.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?  Is there some preference or system setting I need to 
> change? 

wrong printer driver? what model Brother is it? are you using the
driver from Brother's web site, or one of the "mostly works" ones
from the Fedora distribution?

> Printing otherwise (other apps) works fine (well, the only other app I have
> used to print is the lp command), so I am assuming that CUPS is setup 
> properly. 

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