Re: Setting up printing

[Faheem Mitha <faheem@email.unc.edu>]

On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Faheem Mitha wrote:

> 
> 
> On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Brian McGroarty wrote:
> 
> > I've never configured a printer under Linux. I've got an Epson Sylus
> > Color 740i hooked up via USB, and I've got it to the point where I can
> > cat files directly to the device and see them printed.
> > 
> > I'm a bit baffled by the number of choices of packages which are
> > available, as well as the number of printing systems to choose from,
> > from cups to lpr to half a dozen other choices.
> > 
> > 1. Do all of these printing systems need to be configured for printing
> >    to work in most apps, or are they complementary?
> 
> You'll need to set it up. I strongly recommend trying to get cups working.
> There is a guide for getting cups/gimp-print working off
> www.linuxprinting.org which you might think worthwhile looking at (
> http://www.ebbs.com.au/~mark/cups-gimp-print.html ), and it actually
> mentions Debian. Note also that there is a nice frontend called qtcups for
> cups. There are others, but this is the one I use.

Note by the way, there are fairly recent packages of cups and gimp-print
in testing/unstable, so you probably won't need to mess around with
tarballs.

                                            Faheem.