From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 27 19:30:03 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EB5E1065672 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:30:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from punosevac@math.arizona.edu) Received: from smtp224.math.arizona.edu (smtp224.math.arizona.edu [128.196.224.202]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E9C98FC1C for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:30:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from punosevac@math.arizona.edu) Received: from Debian-exim by smtp224.math.arizona.edu with local-bsmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JURyc-0000pM-4u for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:30:02 -0700 Received: from 71-220-154-220.tcsn.qwest.net ([71.220.154.220] helo=.domain.actdsltmp) by smtp224.math.arizona.edu with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JURyN-0000oo-Kv; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:29:47 -0700 Message-ID: <47C5BA27.2000509@math.arizona.edu> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:29:43 -0700 From: Predrag Punosevac User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070916) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mbeis@xs4all.nl, questions@freebsd.org References: <1204139113.1033.0@yokozuna.lan> In-Reply-To: <1204139113.1033.0@yokozuna.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ACL-Warn: The HELO/EHLO greeting .domain.actdsltmp is invalid X-Outgoing-Spam-Score: -2.0 (--) Cc: Subject: Re: Printing in Gnome X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:30:03 -0000 Marco Beishuizen wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having trouble getting things printed in Gnome. CUPS is installed and > printing a test from localhost:631 is working fine. In the gnome-cups- > manager the printer is showing. > But when I try to print a test from the gnome-cups-manager I get a message > that it's printed and the led on the printer flickers, but nothing is > coming out. Because by default it prints to PostScript file not a real printer. > Even when the cups logfile is saying the print has succeeded. > Also It's impossible to print from any application (Gnome or not), the > printer is not showing, or when trying to print to /usr/local/bin/lpr > nothing happens. > > You have to adjust the preferences. By default most applications will print to Post Script file. You have to put something like lpr or to change default printer. Try to print a PostScript file from the shell with $lpr -Pprintername filename.ps > Has someone an idea what to do next? > > Thanks in advance, > > Marco > >