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From: Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS - Some apps see printers, some do not
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:05:36
Message-Id: tkrat.291202adbcfabd96@igpm.rwth-aachen.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS - Some apps see printers, some do not by Mark Knecht
1 On 23 Feb, Mark Knecht wrote:
2 > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:53 PM, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >> On 02/23/2010 06:23 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
4 >>>
5 >>> Hi,
6 >>>    I'm looking around in vain for info on why some apps (Open Office
7 >>> apps for instance) see printers while other apps (Evolution and
8 >>> Firefox for instance) do not. Apps that don't work seem to offer print
9 >>> to file and print to LPR. On the other hand Open Office provides only
10 >>> the obscenely ugly CUPS printer name
11 >>> "HP_LaserJet_M1522nf_MFP_192.168.1.5".
12 >>
13
14 Just one note,
15 are you using a binary version of firefox, etc, on a 64 bit machine?
16 I had the same problem here.
17 This was easily solved by replacing the binary version by the native
18 (freshly compiled) version here.
19 Helmut.
20
21 --
22 Helmut Jarausch
23
24 Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
25 RWTH - Aachen University
26 D 52056 Aachen, Germany

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS - Some apps see printers, some do not Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>