"David" <David.Moerike@gmx.net> writes:
>> How did you get Gutenprint? Did you rebuild the Debian packages on
>> sarge, or build from source? Note that the Debian packaging has not
>> had any testing on sarge, and is not supported.
>
> I got the packages ijsgutenprint and libgutenprint2 from "testing". Because
> my call to gs and then cp ...ps /dev/lp0 works, I assume that these packages
> are OK.
They should be fine. They just haven't been tested to work with
sarge, so you might possibly run into problems.
> Thanks for your hint how to call foomatic-ppdfile. I will first deinstall
> Lprng and install cups - and then do that. On "testing", there is a package
> cupsys-driver-gutenprint, and I will examine that too. I will then report
> how it works.
If you install CUPS, you should just use cupsys-driver-gutenprint.
This will give you exactly the same output as ijsgutenprint, but
without all the setup hassle. ijsgutenprint is only needed if you use
LPRng.
Regards,
Roger
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