Re: What is a simple-to-install non-CUPS printer

[Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net>]

On Monday 26 April 2004 18:01, Gregory Seidman wrote:
[...]
>. CUPS is the best way to interact with a
> printer on *nix. Its web-based frontend is easy
[...]

Slightly OT but can anyone explain how gimp manages to print when 
nothing else will?

I tried to set up an epson c64 recently while in italy.  I had to update 
to the latest foomatic-gimp-print to get the c64 as an option in 
cups/kde print manager, but even then it would only print out 
postscript data arrays.  Of course LPR/LPRng and the other options were 
no better.  But the gimp (that was still 1.2) happily printed. The only 
way to work was to print to ps, import into gimp and print from there.  
wierd.

-- 
richard