[NTLUG:Discuss] lpr with USB printer

phrostie pfrostie at yahoo.com
Sat Apr 30 14:18:17 CDT 2005


just got a new USB printer(Epson) myself.
lpr never worked

i had to drop a symlink from lp to lpr.
then almost everything worked fine.
still can't print from gimp, but it is the exception.

hope that helps

On Sun May 1 2005 02:46 am, Tom Hayden wrote:
> I am trying to get lpr to work on my Debian(woody) machine. When I type
> lpr<file> nothing happens. My printer is HP officejet on a USB port. is
> there something special I need to do?

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