Re: A printer configuration program?

[Andreas Jellinghaus <aj@dungeon.inka.de>]

+--[ Panu Hällfors ]--[ panupa@iki.fi ]
| Is there any kind of printer configuration program
| in Debian? I mean writing a printcap is not an easy
| task for a beginner.

look at ieee 1284. it's pretty old, and should be implemented in every printer
sold in the last 5 years or so. it allows to ask the printer "who are you".
(guess how windows does it's autodetection ?).

i only read something about this, never tried myself...

+--[ J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) ]--[ jdassen@wi.LeidenUniv.nl ]
| Hmm. The last time I had to edit printcap directly must have been 1993 or
| so. Magicfilter's /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig does the job for most typical
| setups.

yep. but direct detection would be a nice plus.
maybe the corel people have some idea what / how to do that ?

andreas