[cups.general] Am I using CUPS or some other printing method?

[Larry Alkoff]

John Thompson wrote:
> On 2007-03-18, Larry Alkoff <labradley at mindspring.com> wrote:
> 
>> I cannot print any more with lp or lpr but I can print using KDE
>> Konqueror or Opera.  Using Kubuntu 6.06.
>> Does it sound like CUPS is actually working?
>>
>> lpstat -l reports:
>>
>> lba at kinda bin $ sudo lpstat -t
>> scheduler is running
> 
> It does say the scheduler (cups) is running.
> 
>> system default destination: dj500
>> device for dj500: parallel:/dev/lp0
>> dj500 accepting requests since Thu 21 Sep 2006 04:30:44 PM CDT
>> printer dj500 is idle.  enabled since Thu 21 Sep 2006 04:30:44 PM CDT
> 
> Try explicitly sending the jobs to your printer, e.g. "lpq -Plp0" as 
> your print command.
> 


Thanks for the tip John.
I finally got the printer working (kinda) with
lpr -p dj500 file and
lp -d dj500 file

First time I've had lp / lpr working in quite some time.
 From this I think it's safe to say that CUPS is actually working.

Where can I inform the system about my default printer dj500
when I use lp or lpr?

There is an /usr/bin/lprsetup.sh I looked at but have to examine it at 
length.   I _think_ it creates a printcap entry.

However I already have a single line in /etc/printcap:
dj500|HP DeskJet 500:rm=localhost:rp=dj500:

Is there something wrong with my printcap line?

The other alternative is to create a script like:
lpr -p dj500 $1
but really I shouldn't have to do that.

-- 
Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX
Using Thunderbird on Linux