printer info

[James Richard Tyrer]

Roy J. Tellason wrote:
> 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...

Yes, read the CUPS documentation.  Specifically, how to open the 
web-browser setup for CUPS where you shouldn't have any problem telling 
CUPS that it is a PostScript printer.

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