[ale] Mozilla + CUPS (multiple printers)
Geoffrey
esoteric at 3times25.net
Thu Dec 4 07:58:10 EST 2003
Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 05:54, Geoffrey wrote:
>
>
>>There you have 'Print command' mine is 'lpr -P laser' where laser is a
>>CUPS definition for my qms laser printer. I can change it to 'lpr -P
>>laserbw' and I'll get the CUPS defined printer for black/white print on
>>that same laser.
>
>
> This works for a few printers, but it doesn't scale well. I would
> prefer being given a list of available printers to select from (like
> Windows does).
I don't know of a solution such as that for mozilla. I'm not sure what
you mean by scale well. Is it an issue regarding the number of
printers? That is, it's not easy to remember which of the 37 CUPS
defined printers you want to use?
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Until later, Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
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