"Patrick Kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > I thought I had printing working because from the CUPS web interface I can > print a test page. But that's all I can print! lpr /etc/aliases or lpr > /foo/anythiing else just shoots a blank sheet through. When I print from > samba, the print job seems to disappears.
Is the printer enabled? > Question 1: how do I install lpadmin? Everything on CUPS refers to this > command but apt-get install cupsys didn't do it. I really prefer a command > line to a web interface so need this. Install cups-client. Then see the docs for lpadmin. Getting your printer started should be pretty straightforward. The command for my printer was this: lpadmin -E -pyour_printer_name -vparallel:/dev/par0 -mnec1880.ppd > > Question 2: what is the correct command to print if you are using CUPS? lpr and lp both work for me. lpr doesn't have all the device options that lp has, so I use lp most of the time. The CUPS User's manual is full of these options and I refer to it a lot because I usually don't remember the syntax. Brian
