[ale] Parallel Port Hunting

[John Mills]

Sean -

Thanks for pitching in. This is a KDE setup and I'm relatively 
inexperienced setting up KDE. I'll try your suggestions and report.

 - Mills

On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:

> On Tuesday 05 September 2006 10:14, John Mills wrote:
> | More symptoms, if not more history:
> | 
> | 1. System is SuSE-9.3 on brand-X laptop.
> | 
> | 2. Some apps print successfully: 'acroread' and 'Firefox' can hit both the 
> | inkjet on the USB and the Okipage on the parallel port. 'acroread' gives 
> | as its printer '/usr/bin/lp'.
> | 
> 
> John,
> 
> I've run into this problem before and each time it has been that the
> default print system for the printer has been mis-set.
> 
> I use KDE almost exclusively so that's what I know. <shrug>
> 
> KDE Control Center > Peripherals > Printers: check the page (for each
> printer) and verify that the "Print system currently used:" is set to
> CUPS and not to one of the LPR/LPD options.