On Saturday 28 June 2003 00:54, Dave Cotton wrote: > On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 00:25, John van Spaandonk wrote: > > > I can print .pdf files from the > > > > > > > command line both using lp and lpr. > > Then I commented > > > > Just the same, but how did we end up with lp -d printer_name and lpr -P > > > printer_name, I've got two printers attached. > > To which John wrote: > > ? Here I don't understand you, but I'm not a native English speaker :- > > Don't worry, I don't think even native speakers understood it. > > What happened was that I thought I had the problem with lp and lpr. I > did lp xxx.pdf nothing happened. Then I did 'lpr xxx.pdf' and got a > message to say the job was queued for the Epson printer but that was not > connected, my son has 'borrowed' it. So now I had to direct the output > to the Canon, so I typed 'lp -p canon xxx.pdf', quick error message, OK > 'man lp', 'man lpr', lp needs -d printer_name, lpr needs -P printer_name > as the argument > > But I may have stumbled on something, the Epson and Canon are both on > the same parallel port, there is a manual switch. So really the Canon > should have swallowed a load of Epson codes and printed pages of > garbage. Is it the drivers? What is your printer? My printer is a HP 970cXi, and I'm using the parallel port due to the problems my computer seems to have with USB (http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3138)
Best John
