Linux in Italian schools - five months later [LWN.net]

Linux in Italian schools - five months later

Posted Feb 2, 2006 19:12 UTC (Thu) by kh (subscriber, #19413)
In reply to: Linux in Italian schools - five months later by vblum
Parent article: Linux in Italian schools - five months later

I fight printing issues for end users with Ubuntu - but not exactly setup issues. Setup is easy, it's things like duplexing, choosing paper types, choosing trays (e.g. for letterhead, second sheets, plain - let me send a job to tray 3), orientation (landscape setting anyone?), envelopes, quality settings and sizes for photos that frustate the end users I work with.

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Linux in Italian schools - five months later

Posted Feb 2, 2006 22:52 UTC (Thu) by evgeny (guest, #774) [Link]

> Setup is easy, it's things like duplexing, choosing paper types, choosing trays (e.g. for letterhead, second sheets, plain - let me send a job to tray 3), orientation (landscape setting anyone?), envelopes, quality settings and sizes for photos that frustate the end users I work with.

Erh? The issues you mention mean you have NOT setup CUPS properly (wrong PPD or like). Otherwise, all these options would have appeared in the printing dialog of any CUPS-aware application (and in most legacy apps simply replace lpr with e.g. gtklp; for a desktop box it's probably safe even to softlink lpr to gtklp).

Linux in Italian schools - five months later

Posted Feb 3, 2006 2:54 UTC (Fri) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link]

Cool trick. If you are using KDE, you can do the same thing with kprinter.

On a Debian (or ~-derived) system you can move lpr out of the way gracefully like so:

dpkg-divert --local --rename --add /usr/bin/lpr

You can then create a symlink at /usr/bin/lpr that dpkg knows not to overwrite, the next time the package containing lpr is upgraded.

Linux in Italian schools - five months later

Posted Feb 13, 2006 12:50 UTC (Mon) by daenzer (✭ supporter ✭, #7050) [Link]

Or just install cupsys-bsd?