Parrish M Myers (parrishmyers@yahoo.com) wrote: > The print drivers you get from printpro are dependent on a licence > server and a valid licence. Everything works perfectly except the > driver it self. I tried it for my Deskjet 970Cxi... ain't gonna > happen. *grr* The thing is, is that not even the stcolor.ppd driver that comes with the cups source works! (I grabbed the source since the deb didn't come with ANY drivers!) > No, what you need are the cups drivers that invoke gs. They can be > found at: > http://cups.sourceforge.net/cups-drivers.html > > While this sounds like a step backwards, it is! But, it sould work and > work well... assiming that your printer is supported in gs. Mine, > wasn't (or at least not well). It seems that cups is simply a vehicle > for selling their propiotary print pro software! Which is a shame > considering cups is a great leap above lpr. That's really screwed! If it's like this, then WTF did lprng get replaced for? At least it worked... > The good thing is that there are many print projects going on at > sourceforge.net, gnome and corel. By the end of the year there should > be something that works well. Are any of them in a usable state? I've decided I am not going to play games anymore. I don't care if cups is GPL'ed, I still get the feeling I'm being locked into something proprietary... TIA, Ron -- Email: <mailto:rbf@farrer.net> Home: <http://www.farrer.net/~rbf/> Alpha Linux Organization: <http://www.alphalinux.org> Alpha News: <http://www.alphanews.net> Bellingham Linux Users Group: <http://www.blug.org>
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