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Date:      Tue, 5 Mar 2013 13:19:58 +0100
From:      Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>
To:        "Joseph A. Nagy, Jr" <jnagyjr1978@gmail.com>
Cc:        jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk, "Questions @ FreeBSD" <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Problems Printing
Message-ID:  <20130305121957.GA1581@tiny.Sisis.de>
In-Reply-To: <5135DC95.4000800@gmail.com>
References:  <5135A88B.1000100@gmail.com> <20130305095729.GA1123@tiny.Sisis.de> <5135C776.9000603@gmail.com> <20130305102951.GA1325@tiny.Sisis.de> <5135DC95.4000800@gmail.com>

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El día Tuesday, March 05, 2013 a las 05:52:53AM -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr escribió:

> On 03/05/13 04:29, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> > El día Tuesday, March 05, 2013 a las 04:22:46AM -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr escribió:
> >
> >> The lpr error message is now gone, but no printing activity is going on. ):
> >
> > Try first printing a simple text file or even stdin from the cmd line,
> > like:
> >
> > $ date | lpr -Pfoo
> >
> > if this works, check the CUPS log files what the problem might be when
> > you print from your whatever graphical tool.
> >
> > 	matthias
> >
> # date | lpr -Pfoo
> lpr: The printer or class does not exist.

what is the name of your printer in CUPS? You named it "foo"?
Please try it to configure as well as a Generic Postscript printer;

	matthias

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