On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 21:01 +0000, Charles Mangles wrote:
> I have downloaded and set up the driver, using the CUPS configuration utility,
> for my HP Deskjet 880C printer and now Mozilla Firefox will print directly but
> Openoffice won't. OO will print to a file and doing
>
> lpr somefile.ps
>
> in the command line of an xterm prints somefile OK. Entering the print
> configuration
> utility by entering ./spadmin shows that OO uses
>
> lpr
You might need lpr -P <printer> if you are not using the default
postscript printer. Cups needs to know to convert postscript to whatever
your HP needs (PCL) Please check the CUPS docs for how to do this.
>
> as the command, whereas Mozilla has
>
> lpr ${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME:+'-P'}${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME}
>
> but despite reading man lpr and man lp and checking out gtklp, I can't find
> what to put after lpr in the command line in OO. Is there a string
> that is general and means "print the file on the screen" or would the string
> be
> particular to the application? Is it something simple?
>
> Also using OO to print to a file, then printing the resulting file using lpr
> or gtklp
> gives a black and white output, even when colour is specified in the printer
> setup.
>
> I am running Debian 2.6.10.
>
>
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