printer info

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Wednesday 28 April 2004 01:22 pm, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> Roy J. Tellason wrote:
> > The list of printers that comes up when I'm in the "Add Printer Wizard"
> > (Ugh! Why did they have to use that word?) is pretty short,  and the
> > brand of the printer I'd like to add isn't in there.  It's an IBM Laser. 
> > Can anyone point me to where I can get further info to put in there?

> My wild guess is that you installed CUPS and only CUPS.

Probably.  As opposed to doing what?

> IIUC, to use CUPS with other than PostScript printers and a few models
> (including Epson) you have to either purchase their driver package or
> install additional software.
>
> http://www.linux printing.org/cups-doc.html

I forgot to mention in the earlier post that this _is_ a postscript printer.  
Or so I was told,  "It's got a postscript card in it".  I got a .pdd file for 
it from that site,  it didn't seem to help much,  the software now complains 
that it can't find a postscript driver?  Something like that.

> I think that you can use Foo-Matic with CUPS.
>
> I think that there is a version of GIMP-Print for CUPS.
>
> Or, IIUC, you can obtain a MODIFIED PPD file that will let you use CUPS
> with your GhostScript device with CUPS-O-Matic.  But, it appears to have
> vanished. :-(

I guess what I need at this point is some way to tell the software that I'm 
using this printer,  and that it can handle postscript...

Somebody else mentioned a kde-printer list,  maybe I'll have a look for that 
one as well.

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