On Thursday 02 February 2006 13:38, Ken Moffat wrote:
> So, now for the questions: I've got exactly one physical printer (an > epson stylus), and in cups I have to configure output mode, resolution, > media size, media type, and I can play with colour settings for the > gimp-print driver, and banners. For my typical printing, I can see that > I'll want settings for draft (for speed), quality, and probably a couple > of photo variants (high quality paper, and glossy paper). In cups > terms, does it make sense to use a different "printer" for each of > these, all pointing to the same physical printer, or is there a better > way ? Maybe you just need a print manager? Something like XPP. It's small and not DE dependent. There are others. If I'm wrong and you would just like to have "virtual" printers - one for each commonly used set of printer options, I probably don't have much to say. The Gimp will let you define printers like this. But I tried to get the KDE Print Manager to do this the other day, and couldn't find an easy way. I've never tried to do this directly to cups (scared). > And can I do anything to enforce a maximum of one of these > "printers" actually running at a time (i.e. all could be queueing jobs, > but it would be unfortunate if text and photos were printed onto the > same media). I guess you could set the others offlline in cups (the spooler should still take jobs unless told not to). Regards, Craig -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
