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Date:      Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:22:01 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: printing to a HP Deskjet 812C printer
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On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Antonio Olivares
> <olivares14031@gmail.com> wrote:
>> @ all,
>>
>> I restarted machine and I can print from command line :)
>>
>> [olivares@quadcore ~/Documents]$ cat Document1.txt |  lpr -P Deskjet
>> [olivares@quadcore ~/Documents]$ lpq -a
>> Deskjet:
>> Deskjet is ready and printing
>> Rank   Owner      Job  Files                                 Total Size
>> active olivares   2    (standard input)                      10405 bytes
>>
>> [olivares@quadcore ~/Documents]$
>>
>> Now how do I configure apps like Firefox, evince, LibreOffice to print?
>>
>
> Ok I have figured it out :)
>
> I need to change `lpr` to `lpr -P Deskjet` and it will print.

lpr uses the "lp" queue by default.  If that queue is capable of 
accepting PostScript (with a filter, in this case), all that's needed is 
for the application to use lpr.
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