Printing From Client With Only libcups Installed

I setup a working print server and installed only libcups (per wiki) on my desktop. Printing from my desktop works for in firefox, open office, and several other programs with the notable exception of Adobe Reader which tries to use an 'lpr' command.
I cannot print from the command line using lpr either.
Desktop:~$ lp -P ...
bash: lp: command not found
and
Desktop:~$ lpr -P ...
bash: lpr: command not found
Does anyone know how other programs are managing to print without lp/lpr?

I suspect they use libcups directly.  Libcups's cups.h includes a function "cupsPrintFile()" which I suspect they call to print a file ... after the necesary initializations.
Why would you not want to install cups to get the tools to use this properly?
Last edited by Trilby (2012-10-26 02:05:42)

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