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Authored by: sine08 on Mar 17, '02 06:07:38AM

although this tip might not be read by many because it's older already, here's a little correction: the printer queue is NOT the name you want to give the printer, it has to be the name of a lpd queue. for example: at home i have a linux box which has two epson stylus color printers (non postscript, but that doesn't matter) connected to it. for both printers i set up multiple queues for their different quality level drivers. the queues for the first one are stylus_low, stylus_medium, stylus_high and stylus_mono. for installing those "printers" on the macos x machines you'd have to add a new tcp/ip printer for all four and name the queues just like they are named in the lpd: stylus_low, stylus_medium and so on.... the default queue by default is actually set to "lp" although i don't understand why another user had problems when using the default queue for printing on a queue named lp.... but i guess that's another story



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Authored by: mooboynyc on Dec 05, '03 07:24:47AM

To add some details, the default queue is one of the names you give the printer in /etc/printcap if you're running lpd. "lp" is the default in that file.



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