How does one print in XFce?

[Erik Harrison]

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 17:09:45 +0100, Jean-François Wauthy
<pollux at xfce.org> wrote:
> Le lundi 20 décembre 2004 à 20:02 -0800, Anthony Ewell a écrit :
> > Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> > > If you run the web configuration for cups or check in /etc/printcap there
> > > is an name for the printer - mine is Epson1280. I had to put that for the
> > > system name in xfce4 printer management.  It looks like Oki14 is what you
> > > need.
> > >
> > >   On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Anthony
> > > Ewell wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>brettholcomb at charter.net wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>Do you have cups or lpr installed?  I use cups and simply went to the
> > >>>XFCE
> > >>>printer setup (toolbox) and put in the name of the printer AS IT IS
> > >>>DEFINED TO CUPS.
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >>CUPS.
> > >>
> > >>What do you mean "AS IT IS DEFINED TO CUPS?"  Do you mean
> > >>my /etc/printcap?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>This file was automatically generated by cupsd(8) from the
> > >>>/etc/cups/printers.conf file.  All changes to this file
> > >>>will be lost.
> > >>
> > >>Oki14:
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> >     Figured it out.  It was my settings in "settings", "Printing System."
> > I had them set to "File."  When I changed them to "BSD-lpr", all was
> > fixed.  I can print from Firefox, Open Office Write, and Gimp.
> The only purpose for the printing system settings is to tell xfprint4
> and xfprint-manager which backend uses, i don't see how firefox or
> Openoffice use it (if so, i'm glad to know it)
> > I was confused; I thought "BSD-lpr" stood from some backwards, legacy
> > support or something.
> >
> >     Idea: for boneheads, like myself, maybe change the wording in
> > printing system from "BSD-lpr" to "BSD-lpr (Cups, LPRng)"
> > 
> the BSD-LPR backend is designed to work with lpr (BSD) but some other
> packages (like CUPS and LPRng) offer a lpr interface more or less
> compatible

Are there docs for the printer tools in Xfce? I'll admit that the
whole thing confuses me.

-Erik

> 
> >    I appreciate all the help everyone gave me!
> >
> > Many thanks,
> > --Tony
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-Erik