I use CUPs plus GTKLP (instead of LPR) to control printing and GTKLPQ (instead of LPQ) to control the printer. Between them they seem to do all the things on your wish list. This assumes you are using GNOME but I would suspect there's are KDE equivalents.
Keith
On 1/1/1970, "Graham Trott" gt@pobox.com wrote:
Time for a short rant...
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Somebody please tell me this is going to improve. Printing is a fairly basic requirement, after all. I'd like to move my wife over to Linux, or recommend it to other novices, but there's no way they'll put up with this kind of crap. So here we are, trapped twixt the devil and the deep blue sea. On the one hand, viruses, blue screens and constant demands for cash to keep the system running; on the other, a GUI that needs a four-inch thick manual and a degree in computer science to do the simplest of jobs.
Aaaaarrghh!
-- GT
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