[K12OSN] OT: multiple printers in mozilla

[Petre Scheie]

I found some things on the web which said the same thing: change the 
default 'lpr ...' command that Moz uses to 'kprinter --stdin' and then 
the kprinter dialog box pops up, and I can choose whichever printer I 
want.  It works and is adequate for my needs but I see two problems with 
it: One, printing now takes at least three clicks, five if you change 
the printer choice, which seems like a lot; two, kprinter doesn't seem 
to have an option for designating a default printer, such that if you 
choose a different printer for a given job, the next time you print the 
printer chosen in the previous job will be the default selection.  These 
are minor points, though.  (Perhaps they're better in a later version of 
kprinter?)

Petre

Shawn Powers wrote:

>oooooh... just had an idea...
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>Perhaps changing the lpr binary from being, well, what it is, to a script
>that will call kprinter...  Maybe THEN you'd have to pick a printer by
>default, instead of just sending the print job.  That would break
>commandline printing without Xwindows -- but for my situation, it's a
>kludge that might work...
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>I'll play a bit and report back...
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