[CentOS] Printing problem with CUPS and lp/lpr

Thu Aug 17 02:05:19 UTC 2006
Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu <m3freak at rogers.com>

On Wed, 2006-16-08 at 16:37 -0400, Alfred von Campe wrote:
> I've perused (some of) the CUPS docs, but I haven't found anything  
> that controls printing plain text files with lpr.  Using enscript,  
> which converts a text file to PostScript works just fine.  Worst  
> case, I'll tell all the users to always use enscript.  But it's  
> bugging me that I can't fix the lpr issue.

Have you tried the -o option for lpr?

(BTW, /usr/bin/lpr is a symlink to /etc/alternatives/print, which is a
symlink to /usr/bin/lpr.cups).

Regards,

Ranbir

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