[K12OSN] printing to CUPS printer from program without support

[Jim McQuillan]

Todd,

This should be easy.

Just use:

    lpr -P some_printer


where the value of 'some_printer' is the name of one of your printers.

You can get a list of available printers by running:

     lpstat -l

The same thing is required for printing within acroread.

You can get by without the '-P printer' by setting a default, either 
per-user or system wide.

You can use the 'lpoptions' command to set the default.

Check the man pages on lpstat and lpoptions for more info.

Jim McQuillan
jam at Ltsp.org



Todd O'Bryan wrote:
> On Ubuntu 6.10, I have a CUPS printer installed correctly and can print
> from things like Firefox and OpenOffice no problem. But one of the
> programs I use with my students, DrScheme, doesn't support CUPS directly
> and has a place where you can enter a terminal command. Currently it's
> set to lpr, but that doesn't seem to work.
>
> Is there an easy way to print to CUPS using a command and, if so, what
> is it?
>
> Thanks,
> Todd
>
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