Need help with what I see on the terminal

[mhismail]

Hi,
I do have CUPS put into my notebook by an acquaintance sometime ago.
However, on my HP mini notebook, I have had this constant problem of my HP Laserjet Professional P1102 printing and not printing as it likes! One time I tried the YAST - I have been on Open SUSE 11.4, even right now! Yet to upgrade. Via YAST, I selected this printer as the default printer. It worked for a while. FYI I am using this printer for my MAC as well – and with MAC there is no problem to do printing!

I have this file “Tadika Nur Khalifah.odt “ saved in my document. After reading the “Command-line Printing and options – CUPS 1.4.6- Mozilla Forefox” page, I decided to give it a go. To my dismay, after the following tries, which I copied from the terminal for your scruitiny, I could not get the printer to print!!!


mhismail@netbook:~> lpr -d Tadika Nur Khalifah.odt
lpr: Warning - 'd' format modifier not supported - output may not be correct!
lpr: Error - unable to access "Tadika" - No such file or directory
mhismail@netbook:~> lpr -d tadikanurkhalifah.odt
lpr: Warning - 'd' format modifier not supported - output may not be correct!
lpr: Error - unable to access "tadikanurkhalifah.odt" - No such file or directory
mhismail@netbook:~> lpr -d tadikanurkhalifah
lpr: Warning - 'd' format modifier not supported - output may not be correct!
lpr: Error - unable to access "tadikanurkhalifah" - No such file or directory
mhismail@netbook:~> lp -d tadikanurkhalifah
lp: The printer or class was not found.
mhismail@netbook:~> lpstat -d
system default destination: hplaserjetprofessionalp1102
mhismail@netbook:~> lp -d hplaserjetprofessionalp1102 Tadika Nur Khalifah.odt
lp: Error - unable to access "Tadika" - No such file or directory
mhismail@netbook:~> lp -d halaserjetprofessionalp1102 Tadika Nur Khalifah
lp: Error - unable to access "Tadika" - No such file or directory
mhismail@netbook:~> lp -d hplaserjetprofessionalp1102 TadikaNurKhalifah
lp: Error - unable to access "TadikaNurKhalifah" - No such file or directory
mhismail@netbook:~> lp -d hplaserjetprofessionalp1102 TadikaNurKhalifah.odt
lp: Error - unable to access "TadikaNurKhalifah.odt" - No such file or directory
mhismail@netbook:~>




I am praying you guys can help me.Thanks

[Willynux]

There is no option "d" for lpr. The manual says:

COMPATIBILITY
The "c", "d", "f", "g", "i", "n", "t", "v", and "w" options are not
supported by CUPS and produce a warning message if used.

type: man lpr to see the manual and the options you have for lpr

When using lp though the problem is that you are not properly pointing to the file. Check the location and name of your file correctly. You can maybe drag and drop the file on top of the terminal to be sure there's no mistake in the path to get to the file.

Hope it helps!

[rcgreen]

If a file name has spaces in it, you must put it in quotes.

"Tadika Nur Khalifah.odt"

[mhismail]

If a file name has spaces in it, you must put it in quotes.

"Tadika Nur Khalifah.odt"

Thanks guys. Will follow that advice and will post the result of your suggestion after I have handled the challenge I am having with getting my HP mini on to the internet again -- it may take some time though. I really appreciate your responses and hope you will bear with my clueless posts - until you see a more 'intelligent' post from me -- later!