xfprint4 problem
Brett I. Holcomb
brettholcomb at charter.net
Sat Nov 8 18:47:22 CET 2003
Did you use the xfprintmanager to define a printer. I had to do that before
mine would print.
On Sunday 09 November 2003 01:46, you wrote:
> Thanks for the tip; I've always used the -P flag when printing.
>
> However, modifying the .bashrc as you suggested,
>
> bash-2.05b$ echo $PRINTER
> Brother
>
> and setting the system in xfprint-manager to "lpr", still results in the
> same error message.
>
> Joost Kremers wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 01:25:26AM -0500, Serge Canizares wrote:
> >
> > i don't have a printer, so i don't use xfprint, but:
> >>1. I added in my .bashrc script on the laptop
> >> PRINTER="lpr -P Brother"; export PRINTER
> >
> > for use with lpr, the PRINTER environment variable should be set to the
> > printer itself, not to the entire command. so:
> >
> > export PRINTER=Brother
> >
> > will set the standard printer that lpr uses to Brother.
>
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