Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk> writes: > I agree about lpd. I've found magicfilter to work better for me than > either CUPS or apsfilter: easier to set up and more reliable. This may well be the case for specific uses. However, magicfilter has not had a new upstream release since the 17th of March, *1996*. If you want to use a printer less than 11 years old, you're SOL unless you want to start writing your own filters. It also has quite a lot of bugs which won't ever be fixed seing that it's unmaintained since 1996. I just found that there's now a newer magicfilter (magicfilter2, http://directory.fsf.org/all/Magicfilter.html) which might well replace it. I used to use magicfilter extensively... back in 1999 when I first started printing with GNU/Linux and started writing printer drivers and tools. However, eight years later there are better options which are actively developed and supported, whether you choose CUPS or LPRng. Foomatic is such a replacement, and is what distributions like Mandriva use for their LPRng setup. It will support all the contemporary printer drivers, to boot. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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