On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 08:18:02PM +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > As to cups and gs in BLFS - I now have an epson r360 inkjet : on x86 > > and LFS-6.3 it works very well with cups-1.2.12, espgs-8.15.4, > > foomatic-filters-3.0.2, gutenprint-5.0.2 (using the regular ppd > > from gutenprint for normal prints, and using the gutenprint plugin > > for the gimp for photos). > > Dou you realy need foomatic for Epson inkjets? I have Epson Stylus C84, and > it > works with cups + gs + gutenprint in Debian (not tried to set it up in LFS). > Short answer : I don't know.
Longer answer - I thought it was unnecessary, but the one system that I've built without it (also upgraded to cups-1.3.6, and on ppc) can't print the cups test page (the start is feint and partly offset on a second line, then it just feeds the paper through). That's why I said the specific versions work on x86! I had to change the printer recently (couldn't get the old epson ink cartridges any more, I won't print photos with third-party ink), and I suspect an issue in gutenprint although none of the available versions worked when I tested on ppc, but a recent posting elsewhere made me think foomatic might somehow be necessary. I've just started a build on x86_64, so I should know later this week. Longer term, I might just get a very long usb cable and connect the printer to the server ;) ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
