[PLUG] printer preference?

Elliott Mitchell ehem at m5p.com
Mon Jun 13 06:48:00 UTC 2005


>From: Carla Schroder <carla at bratgrrl.com>
> Even though it is often cursed to the heavens, CUPS is a very nice printing 
> system. Much better than the old line-printer protocols. The CUPS web 
> interface rather sux, but you can also use KDEPrint or Gnome-Print, which 
> many folks prefer. Make sure you download both the foomatic and gimp-print 
> driver packages, and ESP Ghostscript. Having those will prevent 99% of Linux 
> printing problems. The Gimp-print drivers are usually the best.

The old LP protocol works quite well though, and there have been some
glorious uses of it. Speaking of which, has the sound file playing via
lpd been made to work with CUPS?


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