Re: ML-320 compatible dot-matrix printer
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 10:33:03PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
>
>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.
>
Thanks all for your suggestions. I found that in Etch, the standard
gs-gpl okiibm driver works great with apsfilter. Tell apsfilter quality
high, mono and I get 120x144 very nicely. I don't know why this didn't
work under Sarge. The printer uses a paralell interface and is located
beside my PII computer that I use as an ssh client box. The PII only
has an 850 MB drive so to save disk space, I'm using plain old lpd
instead of lprng.
Doug.
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