On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:07:14 +0000
Maurice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello Maurice,
> On Thursday 13 December 2007 22:43:24 Brad Rogers wrote:
> > Either pass the printer name to using the -P (upper case) parameter,
> > export the printer name to $PRINTER,
> Don't know how to do either.
The former can be done in the print dialogue within Pan, just by typing
in " -P printername" after the lpr. The latter would be done by typing
"export PRINTER=printername" at a shell prompt.
Moot, since you've got the problem licked, anyway. Which leads nicely
on to the fact that there are usually several ways a problem can be
overcome when using Linux.
> OK - I went into 'printer management' and found the (one and only)
> printer had *not* been set as 'default printer', for some reason.
I found the same thing on my system. I only noticed when direct
printing failed to work as expected (i.e. without going through the
print dialogue) in OpenOffice.org.
> Many thanks for your help, Brad; much appreciated...
You're welcome.
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