[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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