On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 06:16:49PM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > 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! > Finally got back to the test system (x86_64), and cups-1.3.6, espgs-8.15.4, gutenprint-5.0.2 has just printed the cups test page so no, foomatic is definitely not needed.
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