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Re: yay! I can print!



Did you do anything special to get postscript
to print using CUPS?
My printer just prints out the raw postscript
language text without rasterizing it?




 --- On Sun 07/25, Jason Rennie < jrennie@csail.mit.edu > wrote:
From: Jason Rennie [mailto: jrennie@csail.mit.edu]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
     Cc: jrennie@csail.mit.edu
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 11:25:45 -0400
Subject: Re: yay! I can print!

On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 09:53:13AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:<br>> I concur.  I never have had satisfactory print quality on my agin<br>> Lexmark 4039-10R with lpr/lprng with magicfilter/apsfilter.  I started<br>> playing with CUPS a month or so back and once I installed libgimpprint<br>> and used their ljet3 driver in CUPS I got the best output from that<br>> printer I have seen yet.<br><br>I'm on the other side of the fence ATM; just installed CUPS and<br>configured my Samsung ML-1710 (CUPS had an exact match for<br>make/model).  Test page prints great, enscript'd text prints great,<br>even simple postscript (latex->dvi->postscript) works great.  But,<br>pages printed from firefox/mozilla are a mess---just a jumble of lines<br>at the top of the page; doesn't look anything like gv shows.  I didn't<br>have any problems like this when I was running RedHat/Fedora... (same<br>printer)<br><br>Might there be a driver package I'm missing?  These are the packages I<br>apt-get insta
 lled:<br><br>cupsys-bsd cupsys-client cupsys-driver-gimpprint xpp cupsomatic-ppd<br>foomatic-db-gimp-print<br><br>Any help/ideas would be much appreciated :)<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Jason<br><br><br>-- <br>To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org <br>with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org<br><br>

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