Re: CUPS dependencies
On Wednesday 02 August 2006 11:01, Roger Leigh wrote:
> Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com> writes:
> > On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 05:58:22PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> >> I must be among the lucky or blessed (take your pick). Since I
> >> switched to CUPS and Gutenprint a couple of years back my printing
> >> qulaity has never been higher (the combination blows away the quality
> >> of Windows XP drivers for my old printers). CUPS has been solid for me
> >> and I haven't seemed to experience the problems of others even though I
> >> track Sid. I print to a network attached printer from my desktop and
> >> to it and several locally attached printers on my laptop.
> >>
> >> I'm not a CUPS fan-boy, but I don't miss lprng a bit.
> >
> > Currently, CUPS exits without an error message on my box. I've
> > reinstalled it three times in a month, and it still doesn't work right.
>
> CUPS in unstable is currently having some teething problems. CUPS 1.2
> was tested in experimental for a few months prior to moving to
> unstable, but most of the problems found by users in unstable were not
> found on the limited range of printer hardware and network/system
> setups available to us.
>
> CUPS 1.2.2-1 does seem to have brought some new problems, but I'm not
> sure how much a buggy gs-esp has to blame for that. It's currently
> working fine for me printing to a native PostScript printer, but
> filtering (pdftpps and pstoraster) does not appear to be working
> correctly. Hopefully, this can be rectified in the next few days.
The problems I reported in another thread "CUPS hosed" may have been due to
gs-esp. I rolled back my system to a working version with CUPS 1.2.1 and
upgraded CUPS to 1.2.2 - printing still worked. After uprgading gs-esp to
testing/unstable it broke, gs-esp 8.15.2.dfsg.1-2 from experimental
yesterday fixed printing again.
Chris
>
>
> Regards,
> Roger
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C. Hurschler
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