Thank you. That was a great help. The missing piece in the puzzle. Chris. On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 00:40, Michael Knepher wrote: > On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 18:47, Chris Maybury wrote: > > I set up my HP Deskjet 932C printer in the GNOME Menu/System > > Settings/Printer applet. I made 2 queues using the hpijs driver, one > > for 300 dpi printing and the other for 600. When I go into many > > applications, however, only a Generic Postscript printer is offered as a > > choice. The 300 dpi setting is set as default. Is this generic printer > > that's offered the default setting in "Print" or is it something else? > > Is there any way to get these other choices to show in applications such > > as Evolution or OpenOffice Writer? I'm having a lot of problems > > printing envelopes with the latter which might be cured by using the > > proper driver. It refuses to print the return address no matter what I > > try. > > > With most of the apps, you should be able to set the printer queue by > amending the input box with the print command, lpr. To print to a > non-default queue, type lpr -P <queue name> (with no brackets). So if > you've got a second queue named "600dpi", just put "lpr -P 600dpi". > > For OpenOffice, run Office -> OpenOffice.org Printer Setup. You can set > the default "Generic Printer" to a non-default queue by selecting > Properties and amending the lpr command as above. You can also add > multiple printers pointing to different queues in the same way. > > > I am a newbie to RedHat (about 3 weeks) and have enjoyed getting things > > set up and working correctly. This one has me stumped. Haven't started > > on the scanner yet. :) > > > > TIA. Hope someone can help. > > > > -- > > Chris Maybury <candemaybury@rogers.com> > -- > Michael Knepher <limbo@bluethingy.com> -- Chris Maybury <candemaybury@rogers.com> -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
