ML-320 compatible dot-matrix printer

[Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

Hello,

I have an Origional IBM Personal Computer Graphics Printer.  I know from
previous installations that the only way I found to get it to print
postscript was with the gs-esp ML-320 driver.

However, I've always used lprng since its seems like overkill to bring
in all of cups.  On my last box, where I got it to work, I ended up with
foomatic-printfilters (which brings in a lot of the cups stuff) and used
the foomatic GUI to set it up with lprng.

Does anyone using lprng know of an easier/simpler way to get things
working?

My hesitation on cups is twofold:  the large amount of downloading over
slow dialup; and I'm unclear on the politics of the openprinting.org
movement.  The latter seems to be driven by one company.

What's the scoop on printing, why the move to cups, and do I have any
choice if I want to get this working?

Thanks,

Doug.