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I'm configuring a USB printer in Debian 8.9 and am running into issues. I have configured the printer using the CUPS web interface and named it "elise". I have run lpstat which shows : 

$ lpstat -p -d
printer elise is idle.  enabled since Thu 23 Nov 2017 14:19:29 CET

Then I tried printing a test page using lpr :

$ echo 'test' | lpr -P elise
lpr: elise: unknown printer

I ran these two commands one right after the other and without touching the USB connection, so I am obviously missing something here.

I have checked that lpr was not aliased to anything : 

$ type lpr
lpr is /usr/bin/lpr

Does anyone have any idea ?

Pierre Cathé
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For me

sudo apt remove lpr
sudo apt install cups-bsd

helped with the same issue on a debian-based system.

I've found the solution here, michaelk wrote:

I suspect that lpr is the actual BSD printing system vs cups-lpr. The cups-bsd package includes the lpr,lprm compatibility layer which may not be installed.

99th
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