Why is the Print button in the Print dialog greyed out on RHEL?

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Issue

  • This seems to have started once we updated our Cups server from RHEL4.6 to 5.5.  Printing generally works ('lpr /etc/group' prints fine, as do PS files), and I can print-to-file from Firefox, but Linux desktops can no longer print from Firefox normally.
  • Seems no matter what printer I choose, the Print button is greyed out.  General command-line utilities seem to work- lpq, lpr for example.

Environment

  • Firefox version being called is /usr/lib64/firefox-3.0.7/firefox
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux

  • cups

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