Re: why cups so rarely works "out of the box"

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

On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 08:34:51AM +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 11 Feb 2005, Richard Lyons wrote:
> [snip] 
> > 
> > I am now looking for an alternative set of packages to replace cups 
> > and gimp-print, as many hours of effort have revealed nothing useful 
> > and I cannot print anything at all.   Can anyone suggest a more reliable 
> > choice of packages?.  I need at least to be able to connect an Epson C62
> 
> [snip]
> 
> Have a look at magicfilter. I find that this works better than Cups for
> me and is also easier to set up. 

Thanks Anthony, I shall have to give it a trial -- though I shall be
sorry to lose the convenience of the cups browser interface, which is so
easy for other users to work with.

-- 
richard