Re: yay! I can print!
* Jason Rennie <jrennie@csail.mit.edu> [2004 Jul 25 10:29 -0500]:
> On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 09:53:13AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> > I concur. I never have had satisfactory print quality on my agin
> > Lexmark 4039-10R with lpr/lprng with magicfilter/apsfilter. I started
> > playing with CUPS a month or so back and once I installed libgimpprint
> > and used their ljet3 driver in CUPS I got the best output from that
> > printer I have seen yet.
>
> I'm on the other side of the fence ATM; just installed CUPS and
> configured my Samsung ML-1710 (CUPS had an exact match for
> make/model). Test page prints great, enscript'd text prints great,
> even simple postscript (latex->dvi->postscript) works great. But,
> pages printed from firefox/mozilla are a mess---just a jumble of lines
> at the top of the page; doesn't look anything like gv shows. I didn't
> have any problems like this when I was running RedHat/Fedora... (same
> printer)
>
> Might there be a driver package I'm missing? These are the packages I
> apt-get installed:
I think it depends on whether you are using mozilla.org builds or
Debian packages for Mozilla and/or Firefox. The Debian pakages
currently require Xprint. I am using the mozilla.org builds with no
problems. The default margins may need to be reset or the header and
footer may not be visible.
> cupsys-bsd cupsys-client cupsys-driver-gimpprint xpp cupsomatic-ppd
> foomatic-db-gimp-print
I did install cupsys-bsd, cupsys-client, cupsys-driver-gimpprint/data,
etc. I ried foomatic, but never got any output so I gave up on it, but
that may be more a problem with my printer than foomatic. I have to
use a driver that generates PCL as it doesn't have enough memory to
process PostScript. :-(
> Any help/ideas would be much appreciated :)
Try the upstream Firefox with postscript output?
- Nate >>
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