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Old October 29th, 2002, 03:39 AM
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simple printing question

I am trying to print to a postscript printer on the local network. It is identified as xerox-n40 in my /etc/printcap, and I can issue the following command successfully:

echo "bla bla" | lpr -P xerox-n40

But how can I set this printer to be the default? I am on RH 8.0 and I have tried using the printer settings utility, but I'm too dumb to know what to put in the little boxes :)

All I wanna do is print my li'l graphs from gnumeric :)

christo

here's my printcap entry:

lp|Xerox DocuPrint N40:\
:rm=192.168.1.195:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:af=/var/log/lp-acct:\
:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:\
:pl#66:\
:pw#1:\
:pc#150:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:

xerox-n40|Xerox DocuPrint N40:\
:rm=192.168.1.195:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/xerox-n40:\
:af=/var/log/lp-acct:\
:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:\
:pl#66:\
:pw#1:\
:pc#150:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:

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Old October 31st, 2002, 05:35 PM
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well I did get it working in the end.. it was just a matter of bullying redhat's printer config utility until it did what I wanted... It does bother me, though, that just the core UNIX lpd and lpc utilities couldn't stand up against the Redhat system. Is this where GNU/Linux will take it's next branch, as we watch certain distros force their widgets upon us?

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default printer is a printer named 'lp'. so rename it

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