[Wine] Re: Printing via Cups uses lpr ??

Duane Clark junkmail at junkmail.com
Mon Mar 19 00:50:26 CDT 2007


christof.beuter at t-online.de wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> since I got printing working with wine 0.9.15 I just upgraded to 0.9.20
> on a Debian etch system.
> I got libwine-cups installed, and I can print from notepad and some
> other applications, but not what I expected.
> All I get is a printout that looks like this:
> 
> %!PS-Adobe-3.0
>                            %%Creator: Wine PostScript Driver
> 
>             %%Title: Whatever
> 
> And dozens of blank pages ...
> 
> Looks like wine uses lpr for printing while it should use cups instead.
> 
> Any ideas why ?

Wine prints using the command "lpr". Normally, if you are using CUPS, 
lpr will simply be a symbolic link to the CUPS equivalent, which on my 
system is /usr/bin/lpr.cups. But I don't know specifically how it is 
done on Debian.


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