Evince print to network printer

SomeGuyDude · 2009-04-23 01:04:23

I'm having a hard time with this and nothing's coming up. I have a printer I'm successfully connected to via CUPS, I can print fine in OpenOffice.

However, evince won't print. The "print" button is grayed out. I -need- to print PDFs and right now literally the only way is to borrow a windows machine and knock 'er out.

Help!

firecat53 · 2009-04-23 02:20:40

Unless you have a really abnormal printer/network configuration:

sudo mv /etc/cups/cupsd.conf /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.bak
sudo cp /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.default /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
sudo /etc/rc.d/cups restart

I had the same problem today....there's a slightly different cupsd.conf format, I guess.

Good luck!
Scott

Edit:
You might also change the AuthType line under # All printer operations require a printer operator to authenticate...
to

AuthType none

so it doesn't ask you for a password or fail silently if the program isn't designed to prompt you for a password.

Last edited by firecat53 (2009-04-23 02:24:18)

SomeGuyDude · 2009-04-23 03:42:46

My friend, you are good!

Now if I can get AbiWord to stop shutting itself down when I try to print...

listdata · 2009-04-23 22:35:47

Thanks firecat53 -- your solution of simply updating the cups daemon's config file worked!

firecat53 · 2009-04-24 00:41:05

Thanks not my solution, tho! Thanks to skottish (again!!). I'm just good at searching!

Scott

tek · 2009-06-02 06:05:56

Oh firecat53, thanks a lot!

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Evince print to network printer

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Re: Evince print to network printer

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