Re: Postscript printer help
Hi,
Olivier Esser <ol.esser@belgacom.net> writes:
> On Tuesday 19 November 2002 08:27, Gerald Livingston wrote:
> > I was given a postscript (level 2) capable color laser printer (HP Color
> > LaserJet 5M). What should I use as a print spool setup? I've installed
> > CUPS but it doesn't seem to be offering a plain postscript dump option.
> > I located a .ps file on my system
> > (/usr/share/apps/kdeprint/testprint.ps) and just did a 'cat
> > /usr/share/apps/kdeprint/testprint.ps>/dev/lp0' and it worked
> > beautifully, color and all.
> >
> > Should I remove all CUPS related packages and simply install lprng and
> > magicfilter?
> >
> > G
>
> You can charge a ppd file to be put in the correct diretory in order to tell
> CUPS what printer exactly you and what are its capabilities (see the
> documentation about cups on www.linuxprinting.org, look at the exact
> model of
> printer you have; the ppd file is probably there)
More easy: install foomatic-bin and foomatic-db.
foomatic-db contains the PPD files. foomatic-bin is used to configure
the queues. Read the included documentation.
Regards,
Jaume
>
> More simply, you can choose "raw printer" as the model of your printer in
> CUPS. In this case, you will not be able to configure your printer.
>
>
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