Printing a message within kmail

[Timothy Murphy]

Tim Waugh wrote:

> On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 12:30 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> I'm unable to print an email message from within kmail,
>> by clicking on File=>Print.
>> I get the message
>> "Connection to CUPS server failed.
>> Check that the CUPS server is correctly installed and running.
>> Error: host not found."
>> The server is listed as /var/run/cups/cups.sock:631 ,
>> which seems odd to me.
> 
> Seems to be this bug:
> 
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193098

Thanks very much.
This led me to
<https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2006-May/msg04431.html>
which gave the solution to the problem.

In brief, one has to go to
Control Centre=>Peripherals=>Printers,
click on Print Manager/Configure Manager,
and go to CUPS Server
and correct the information for Host:

In my case I put "localhost" on my desktop,
to which the printer is attached (via the parallel port),
and on my laptop I put "alfred", the name of the desktop.

Now when I tried to print an email message within kmail
on my desktop, I still got an error - no printer was shown.
I had to click on the wand, go into the KDE Add Printer wizard,
and give the correct information for the printer "lj" there.
It warned me that it was over-writing the information for "lj"
(recall that CUPS printing already worked perfectly for me
outside of kmail),
but after this I was able to print email within kmail
on both desktop and laptop.


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