[wplug] default printers for firefox on linux

[Kevin Squire]

Dear John,

This has to do with the Xprint service that the Mozilla family are all
using.  I found that by stoping the Xprint service, the @:64 stuff were
all gone, and everything still printed fine.  In fact, my 4 @:64
printers were printing everything wrong.  It increased the size of
EVERYTHING.  I printed out the google front page as a test, and about
half way down the page, up against the right hand margin was the "GOO"
and nothing else.

In debian I just did (as root) 
	/etc/init.d/xprint stop
Then to make it perminate (again as root) 
	update-rc.d -f xprint remove   

If anyone knows why I sould NOT have done this, or have a better
solution - I am open to it. :-)



On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:09:51 -0500
John Harrold <jmh17 at pitt.edu> wrote:

> I'm trying to configure the printer settings in firefox.  We have a
> couple printers which have spools on our print server. The server is
> running cups and we get our spool info from the server. We have 5 or 6
> print spools, but I'll use the spools 'scribe' and 'quill' to describe
> what we're expirencing. For every spool we have the printer selection
> list in firefox has two plus two others whos orgin is unknown. The
> printer selection list looks like: 
> 
> scribe@:64
> quill@:64
> xp_ps_spooldir_HOME_Xprintjobs@:64
> xp_pdf_spooldir_HOME_Xprintjobs@:64
> Postscript/scribe
> Postscript/quill
> 
> Now the first two with the '@:64' seem to print to the printers in A4
> format. The last two seem to print to the correct printer in the
> correct format. The function of the printer options with the 'xp_'
> prefix is unknown. 
> 
> Now this is my question. Is it possible to eliminate the options which
> end in '@:64'? Also is it possible to specify the default printer
> arbitrarily?
> 
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