Re: Printing issues...

["Chris Travers" <..hidden..>]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Del Miller <..hidden..> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm getting desperate here...  I set up a new server (Debian) and have
> successfully migrated LSMB over to it.  It's been a couple of weeks
> since I did the initial migration and testing but I did not have any
> printing problems at the time.  So, I go to print out billing yesterday
> and I get nothing.  LSMB does not report any errors, neither does CUPS
> (even with debugging turned on).  I see the job show up in the print
> queue and then disappear as if it printed but the printer never budges.
>
> If I move to the CLI and print from there, all works as expected and
> everything prints out just fine as does Firefox and OpenOffice.
>
> I can print preview/print to the screen using PostScript/Evince... that
> works, but I can't get Evince to print.
>
> I double checked all the settings in ledgersmb.conf and all seems fine,
> here's the relevant section:
>
> [printers]
> # Available printers
> Default = lpr
> Laser   = lpr -P NEC
> PDF     = lpr -P CUPS-PDF-Printer
> MICR    = lpr -P LaserJet-4L

I believe there are issues with the CUPS tools provided in the .deb.
You can get around this by doing something like:

LJ4 = lp -d lj4 > /dev/null

Or at least I ran into a similar issue on Ubuntu, so I think this
might be a good place to start.

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers