on Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:57:40PM +0800, David Palmer (Katipo@westnet.com.au) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't know about the HL1440, but Turboprint drives the HL1270N, HL1450, and
> the HL1470.
> Regards,
>
> David.
>
>
> /quote:Hello,
>
> after minor difficulties I've gotten cups to work on my decrepit
> laptop, using a brother hl-1440 laserprinter (the printer interprets
> PostScript on its own, though I think it doesn't use the Adobe
> interpreters). ?Right now it seems to be working well (though for a
> while it was printing strangely at unpredictable intervals, and I keep
> worrying it will resume its ugly old habits). ?
>
> But I only have 96 megs of ram, and cups seems unnecessarily lrge,
> given that I don't want to act assa printserver or anything. ?I DO,
> however, want to print pretty documents from OpenOffice & one or two
> other programs (possibly sometimes gimp). ?
>
> Are there any workable alternatives to CUPS? ?Any alternatives that
> folks actually RECOMMEND using? ?It would be great to run a somewhat
> leaner print system...
CUPS *is* the alternative.
If you want lighter, install lprng or lpr, which are classic 'Nix
printer systems.
Note that there are a few areas on GNU/Linux in which support
is...cumbersome. Fonts, sound, and printing are probably the big three.
CUPS, when it works, which is pretty damned much always, is
bone-numbingly easy to set up. The results are very clean, and it
supports a huge range of hardware.
As for "lean", cupsd is sucking down 2764K on my system, which I can
gladly spare.
If you have a postscript-enabled printer (and it appears you do), and it
works off of ethernet, you can get by with a simpler system.
Neat bit about Debian is that you can remove, but not purge, cups. Try
out lpr and/or lprng. See if it works. If it doesn't, just reinstall
cups and you're cooking with gas (as Peter would say).
Peace.
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