Unable to locate PostScript driver

[James Richard Tyrer]

David J Brooks wrote:
> I'm trying to connect to a network printer.
> 
> Starting at KMenu->Print System->Print Manager I enter administrator mode and 
> select 'Add printer/class' from the Add menu. This starts the Add Printer 
> Wizard. I select remote LPD Queue add the host and queue info. At the Printer 
> Model  Selection page I check the box for Postscript Printer and get a 
> warning dialog: "Unable to find the Postscript driver."
> 
> I have Ghostscript installed and working fine with my local printer, so I KNOW 
> it's there. Why can't KDE find it? Where is it looking for the postscript 
> driver?

GhostScript is not the PostScript driver.

If you have a printer with PostScript built in, you don't need a device 
(or driver) for GhostScript and you don't use a printer "driver".

With some printer setup tools, you would configure the printer as RAW. 
You send it the PostScript file without any modification.

I suggest that if you are using LPD that it might not work with the KDE 
setup tools and you might need to use the tools that came with LPD.

-- 
JRT
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