xfprint4 problem

[Antonio Del Rosso]

On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 05:13:41 -0500
Serge Canizares <serge at enluminaire.com> wrote:

> Yep, I logged out of XFCE before trying again, and then also tried 
> running xfprint4 from command line just to be sure it was picking up the 
> env var.
> 
> Joost Kremers wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 01:46:27AM -0500, Serge Canizares 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.
> > 
> > 
> > but are you sure the setting is known in xfprint? i mean, xfprint has to be
> > started in an environment in which the PRINTER variable is set to
> > Brother. so it may be necessary to log out completely.
> >  
> > but let me stress again that i don't use xfprint, so there may well be
> > something else that you need to do to get it to work. i really only wanted
> > to correct your value of PRINTER, which i think would break printing
> > altogether...
On my FreeBSD machine xfprint4 uses /usr/bin/lpr. If you have installed CUPS, the command is /usr/local/bin/lpr. I had same problem on FreeBSD. Check lpr path.
Bye
Antonio