Re: CUPS alt.

[Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk>]

On 05 Sep 2003, David Palmer 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...
> 
> thanks again,
> matt/unquote.

When I bought my new printer (Kyocera Mita FS1010) I spent a couple of
days trying to get CUPS to work but didn't make much progress. However
I've had no problems with lpr and magicfilter. I don't use Openoffice
but I can print without problems from everything I've tried (mutt,
phooenix, etc).  

However, for reasons I don't understand, if I use kernel 2.6.0-test2 I
cannot print anything except plain text via lpr; no success with jpg
files. 2.4.22 is fine.


AC


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