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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS - Some apps see printers, some do not
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:13:38
Message-Id: 5bdc1c8b1002240550h22f3cc36j7e05c20fa4b200c8@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS - Some apps see printers, some do not by Helmut Jarausch
1 On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2:28 AM, Helmut Jarausch
2 <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de> wrote:
3 > On 23 Feb, Mark Knecht wrote:
4 >> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:53 PM, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote:
5 >>> On 02/23/2010 06:23 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
6 >>>>
7 >>>> Hi,
8 >>>>    I'm looking around in vain for info on why some apps (Open Office
9 >>>> apps for instance) see printers while other apps (Evolution and
10 >>>> Firefox for instance) do not. Apps that don't work seem to offer print
11 >>>> to file and print to LPR. On the other hand Open Office provides only
12 >>>> the obscenely ugly CUPS printer name
13 >>>> "HP_LaserJet_M1522nf_MFP_192.168.1.5".
14 >>>
15 >
16 > Just one note,
17 > are you using a binary version of firefox, etc, on a 64 bit machine?
18 > I had the same problem here.
19 > This was easily solved by replacing the binary version by the native
20 > (freshly compiled) version here.
21 > Helmut.
22 >
23 > --
24 > Helmut Jarausch
25
26 Thanks but no. In fact the one binary thing on the system that comes
27 to mind is Open Office in which printing is working. It's the stuff
28 I'm building that isn't!
29
30 - Mark

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