For what it's worth, you could install the bsd commands for cups and then use lpr -Pprinter and it will act as expected. They're packaged in debian as:
cupsys-bsd - Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - BSD commands I use this frequently as I have setup several printer profiles for my printer for the different resolutions and whatnot, avoiding the need for constantly having to change the settings manually. -- Mike Vincent Tops Embroidery Works Keller, Texas http://www.topsew.com (817) 683-7151 On 23 Oct 2002 10:24:55 -0700 Rob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am setting up printing with SL. I had the setting "Printer" set as > > lp -PhpljIII > > because our printer is called hpljIII. Well, that doesn't work so well > with CUPS. > > -P is _page-list_ for CUPS, and we didn't want to print just the pages > hpljIII, whatever that means. :-) > > so, we used > > -d hpljIII > > instead, because -d is for _destination_. > > Then, we got an error from the web page, "Internal Server Error", even > though the printout worked fine. > > The problem was that good ol' CUPS wasn't just doing its' thing and > being quiet about it. It likes to say things like > > "request id is hpljIII-75 (1 file(s))" > > So, we put the -s parameter in there, which is for silent-mode. All is > good now. I don't know if this belongs in the FAQ or not, it certainly > doesn't seem to be that F of an AQ. Maybe in the printer setup > documentation or something. > > rob > >
