help with printing

[Michael]

On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 03:32:55PM -0600, Michael wrote:
> 
> I've never used lpr for printing but need to print some email every so often on this machine.
> I enabled the lp section in /etc/printcap, set localhost under /etc/hosts.equiv, tried reading man pages for lpd, but guess it's way over my head. 
> I'm just trying to get my HP DJ870 setup to print email with mutt. 
> I'm running 4.3
> 
> Thanks.
> Mike

Good news!  I finally got it all working :)
I installed LPRng, read /usr/local/share/doc/LPRng/index.html, read the manpage for checkpc, ran that command a couple of times, changed my path to /usr/local/sbin/lp*, then changed my .muttrc file to use /usr/local/bin/lpr and all works quite well :)
The html file and checkpc helped a lot.

Mike