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Re: cups under mozilla

 
Umapathy S
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cups under mozilla

Guys,
I have a RH9 distro. I configured Cups1.1 for a HP Jetdirect printer. I dont know the way to include that in Mozilla. Mozilla doesnt seem to understand the printer configured under cups1.1. Anyone knows the solution?

cheers
Umapathy

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Stuart Browne
Honored Contributor

Re: cups under mozilla

From memory (haven't used Cups in a while), Cups should dump out an /etc/printcap for use with 'other' programs.

Does that have the listing for your printer in it?

You've tried restarting the Cups daemon?
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Umapathy S
Honored Contributor

Re: cups under mozilla

Stuart,
I did restart cups. Actually I rebooted my machine due a kernel upgrade after that. So, that is not the problem.

/etc/printcap is modified by cupsd. /etc/cups/printers.conf did have my printer configured.

I think I have to change some mozilla settings to gather the printer info from cups.

When I select print from mozilla and subsequently the properties, the info displayed is
lpr ${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME:+'-P'}${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME}

Anything needs to be changed here?

cheers
Umapathy

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Stuart Browne
Honored Contributor

Re: cups under mozilla

That line is saying that if there is a printer defined in that environment variable (MOZ_PRINTER_NAME), pass '-P' to the 'lpr' command.

Otherwise it should just use the default printer. Do you have a default printer set up?

Can you do the simple test:

date | lpr

and have it come out?

If not, try setting MOZ_PRINTER_NAME up in your .profile or something to be the device name of your printer.
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Umapathy S
Honored Contributor

Re: cups under mozilla

Stuart,
I changed the whole with qtcups which indeed opened the printer dialog box. I get cannot open temporary file. I think I need to specify a tmp dir to write the files.

I tried to make these changes permanent but insted corrupted the /usr/lib/mozilla-1.3.1/defaults/prefs/unix.js file. Now, I dont get any standard dialog boxes of mozilla for the whole print section of the File Menu.

cheers
Umapathy

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Stuart Browne
Honored Contributor

Re: cups under mozilla

*cringe* ugh :( very un-nice :(
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