[Novalug] printing recap (from memory)

greg pryzby greg@pryzby.org
Sun Oct 20 16:49:44 EDT 2013


There are a few things to think about and realize when working with
printing. There is a daemon (process that talks to the printer) called
cups.

cups is print server that will talk to printers it knows about. You
can start/stop cups. There is a web interface on localhost:631
(probably). It can tell you status.

If you want to interact with your printer, you want to use either a
gui tool, application or from the command line the lp* commands.

If things are setup properly, the lp commands will use cups to talk
with the printer.

The printer can be in ready/pause/stopped state. Paused means you need
to tell it to resume before it will continue printing.

To learn more about cups, go here:
   http://cups.org/documentation.php

This page will help you from the command line:
   http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/options.html

IF you are still having problems Charlie, please cut and paste the
following commands and the output. To make it easy, from the command
line use the following command to capture your keystrokes and the
output. This can be sent as a mail attachment.

The command is
   script cups-output (you can replace cups-output with file name, no spaces)
   <Ctrl> d
   will stop capturing data and close the file so you can send it.

The commands to run are:
   cd ~
   script cups-output
   lpstat
   lpq
   dpkg -l | grep hp
   dpkg -l | cups
   <Ctrl> d

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