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How Can I Print Under A Username Different Than The One I'm Logged In As?
I bring my own personal laptop to school where my login is nickname. However, in order to print to the school's printers the username that sends the print job must match my school's AD login, ...
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Margin problems when printing PDF using LPR on OS X
I'm printing a PDF document using LPR on OS X, to a Canon MP190 printer.
When printing the same document (Letter paper size) from the Preview app, the margins are correct.
When printing using LPR, the ...
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How do I tell aptitude or apt to offer a particular version of lpr?
I seem to have a weird version of lpr installed (one that doesn't cope with -o, see also this question). On all my other machines that run the same debian squeeze, the proper version of lpr is ...
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Make Sending Alternate Username to Printer Queue Permenant
I am currently having trouble to print file to a userid protected network printer. The problem is that my username is not what they want.
Well, I can print files from terminal:
lpr -p [printer name] ...
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lpr on Cygwin appending .lnk to my PRINTER value
I have Cygwin on a Windows 7 machine. In my .bashrc file, I have tried
export PRINTER=\\\\myPrintServer\\myPrinter
Escaping the backslashes, which, when I type $lpr -D, gives me
Windows Printer ...
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lpr -o page-ranges=1 is still printing all three pages
I need to make lpr print just the first page of my document, however it continues to print everything. Itried these commands:
lpr -P <myprinter> -o page-ranges=1 <myfile>
lp -d ...
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Adobe Reader seems to use wrong lpr command when printing to CUPS
On my debian lenny box, printing via CUPS works fine, e.g. using OpenOffice.
When printing from Adobe Reader, however, stuff doesn't work. It appears the problem happens during the first step of the ...
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LPR Printing: Tumble mode
Apparently this is an option to do with duplex/simplex in lpr, but I haven't been able to find what it means.
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lpr: cannot open printer description file
On a debian with cups, I get the following error with an alias of mine
cc2ps cms2CompsGlobEnrich.m
[cms2CompsGlobEnrich.m (C++): 4 pages on 4 sheets]
lpr: cannot open printer description file
[Total: ...
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Linux: how to list printer names acceptable for use with lpr?
The lpr man page says a destination printer can be specified with the -P flag.
-P destination[/instance]
Prints files to the named printer.
I have 'added' various printers on local Samba shares ...
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How do I monitor network traffic for IPP (LPD/LPR)?
I'm writing an application that sends print jobs over IPP to an LPR print server. I need a way to monitor the traffic going between that server and my development box. Right now I'm just sending jobs ...
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How to print in Windows (Vista) using a different user?
Is it possible to print as different user in Windows (Vista) without switching user?
I don't want to create profile for another user. (I need this because of some printers that are accessible only ...
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Finding manuals for lpr
This thread is based on the thread.
Where are the newest manuals for lpr?
I would like to know where the flags such as "page-range" are documented. I did not find them in Ubuntu 9.10.
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