Re: cups printing

[Jan Willem Stumpel <jstumpel@planet.nl>]

Nic Deane wrote:

> I downloaded dosemu to run an old DOS PIM called Portex which I
> love and have lots of Filofax papers set up on. I really am
> trying to move completely over to Linux! In Windows I have to
> set my default printer as HP LJ 2-6 LPI and this prints through
> my HP LJ 4 Plus. In dosemu I can load the document I want but
> when I set it to print it comes up with the error message lpr:
> error - unable to print file: client-error-not-found
> 
> I tried gedit on /etc/dosemu/dosemu.conf and took out the # at
> the beginning of the lines and saved
> 
> $_printer = "lp" $_printer_command = "lpr -l"

It seems that CUPS does not always provide a default printer
called 'lp', as expected by dosemu. The solution seems to be to
use the lpstat -a command to find out the names of the printers
(a.k.a. print queues) that you do have. E.g., if the lpstat
command says your printer is called (say) HP_LJ4, you enter in
/etc/dosemu/dosemu.conf (or even better, in ~/.dosemurc):

   $_printer = "HP_LJ4"

Then also, you may try to get rid of CUPS altogether. A Laserjet 4
Plus is well supported on Linux by lprng + magicfilter, without CUPS.

Regards, Jan