Re: Setting up printing
Dave Sherohman wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 12:13:57PM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote:
> > Brian, what's been said about CUPS is true, and that's what I use.
>
> I guess you haven't heard all that's been said about CUPS...
I meant on *this* thread. :-)
> > In any case, any system you use is going to need a recent Ghostscript
> > with support for your printer linked in
> ...
> > You'll want the cupsomatic package, which is in Debian testing now. I
> > notice there's a ppd for the stp driver and for the stc740ih.upp
> > driver.
>
> I use CUPS with a Stylus Color 880 and the stock stcolor.ppd from the
> cupsys package. No ghostscript. No cupsomatic. It just works.
>
> You'll need something more than the vanilla stcolor.ppd to get access
> to >720 dpi or any special features of your particular model, but,
> for the vast majority of users, it should be sufficient.
>
Good point. I do a lot of printing from Netscape; it seems to want to
output in ps format, and I'm pretty sure I need gs in there somewhere!
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