Hello, On Feb 17 08:43 Paul Cartwright wrote (shortened):
when I first installed my printer via YaST ( or was it utilities-printmanager) it installed my epson with this port:
usb://EPSON/Stylus COLOR 880
I wonder why the blanks are not quoted with '%20', i.e.: usb://EPSON/Stylus%20COLOR%20880
Firefox now refuses to print to that, yet adding the same printer with this port:
usb:/dev/usb/lp0
now works.
See http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/05/jsmeix_print-cups-in-a-nutshell.html "The Backends" For the reason why /dev/usb/lp0 and /dev/usb/lp1 do not work well if there are two USB printers see the old article http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2000/03/jsmeix_print-device-usb.html I do not understand why it depends on the DeviceURI whether in particular Firefox prints or not. The DeviceURI is only needed to tell the cupsd which backend to use and to tell the backend how to send the printing-data to the destination but it has nothing to do with the individual applications which submit print-jobs to arbitrary queues of the printing system. Kind Regards, Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5 Mail: jsmeix@suse.de 90409 Nuernberg, Germany WWW: http://www.suse.de/