lp -d..._R fails with no message (was: Screenprint...doesn't print!)

[Kris A. Kugel]

In <1010 at hico2.UUCP>, I write
>For some reason, when I press SHIFT-print
>(print key and shift at the same time)
>I get a message box saying that my print job is being queued,
>but nothing happens.

After trying various suggestions, I've narrowed the problem to
something with lp.
	lp -dIBMProprinter [file] succeeds
	lp -dIBMProprinter_R [file] fails with no error message
	lp -dIBMProprinter_R < [file] fails with no error message
	lp -dfoo fails with no error message
	enabling IBMProprinter_R while su'd to lp has no effect.

Pecularities:  I have a different printer "device" also using /dev/rawlp.

I see this as two problems:
	1. lp does not produce any error warnings.
	2. the _R convention doesn't seem to work on my system.
		
Output from lpstat -t:
scheduler is running
system default destination: IBMProprinter
members of class Parallel:
	Special
	IBMProprinter
device for IBMProprinter: /dev/lp
device for Special: /dev/rawlp
Parallel accepting requests since Sep 20 00:04
Special accepting requests since Aug 12 23:52
IBMProprinter accepting requests since Aug 12 23:58
printer Special is idle.  enabled since Nov  1 15:26
printer IBMProprinter is idle.  enabled since Feb  5 10:45

c-w--w--w-  1 root    sys       6,  0 Mar 29 10:49 /dev/lp
c-w--w--w-  1 root    sys       6, 32 Mar 29 11:30 /dev/rawlp
-rwsr-sr-x  1 lp      bin       14192 Jan  1  1970 /usr/bin/lp
-rwxr-xr-x  1 bin     bin        9764 Jan  1  1970 /usr/bin/sprint

Output from coffdate:
Sat Apr 18 15:46:39 1987  /usr/bin/lp
Sat Apr 18 17:28:51 1987  /usr/bin/sprint

I can't see anything obviously wrong, and I don't know enough
about how lp works on the 3b1 to make a guess at what to try
next.  The only thing I can think of is that the existance of
"Special" is interferring with printing to "IBMProprinter_R".
Anybody have any ideas on what is going on here?
                               Kris A. Kugel
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