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Re: Athena 10 printing/configuring a local CUPS printer

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Mon Oct 20 15:10:44 2008

Message-Id: <200810201909.m9KJ9xVj007033@outgoing.mit.edu>
To: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>
cc: alexp@mit.edu, testers@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 18 Oct 2008 12:20:40 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:09:59 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>


Hi Evan,

>> I'm trying to understand Athena 10 printing problems, and in the
>> process of doing this I'm trying to configure a local printer, which
>> I'm so far unable to do successfully.

> The URI you want to try adding is <lpd://husq.mit.edu/hero>

This works! Thanks! I'm finding printing issues in various applications, as
affected by the setting of the $PRINTER environment variable (or not). I'll
report further when I've done more testing.

                                            Alex

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