Marc Wilson wrote:
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 03:25:27PM -0600, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés wrote:I had the same problem, you have to: # apt-get install cups-pdf that resolved my problem.No, you had the opposite problem... cups-pdf turns nomal documents into PDF files. And actually does a piss-poor job of it... the least the back-end could do is mail you the thing rather than expecting to be able to write to your homedir.
That's probably what I'm trying to avoid.I suspect one of the problems, and this is a guess, that the typical cups installation uses foomatic which assumes you do not have a PS compatable printer. So I'm doing multiple conversions on my file formats. But I can't tell. Every time I try to figure out how printers work on Linux I get a really bad headache.
Maybe I should be asking a different question:What's the best way of doing a printer configuration when you have a cups server running on a stand alone box and have two printers connected to it. One being an HP color printer (non postscript) and the other being a Kyocera laser printer (postscript). They are both connected via USB (which may in itself be another potential problem, but seems resolved in kernel 2.6.10).