had a reply from open offiuce forum which helps solve the problem: - start spadmin at openoffice/program/spadmin and define your default printer.
Using spadmin (as root), select the generic printer, edit it and choose from the list with your configured printer settings, toolbar print now works. -- OpenOffice print icon always selects defunct Generic printer, not the system default https://launchpad.net/bugs/50309 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
