Thus spake Conrad Newton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >From Matthew Daubenspeck on Tuesday, 2003-03-18 at 11:27:12 -0500: > > On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 04:01:18PM +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > A preliminary attempt to set up CUPS was rather demanding and I'm > > > wondering if there is much point on a single-user system. Most of my > > > printing is quite straightforward (plain text and only occasional > > > images) and it works well with apsfilter or magicfilter, so is there any > > > reason to spend several hours trying to get CUPS to work? Any > > > significant advantage with that system? > > > > I could NEVER get CUPS working, but I will admit the setup is a bit > > strange. I have the local spooler collect jobs and route them to a bunch > > of HP JetDirect printers. Like I said, with CUPS, this never worked. > > > > I gave up, installed lprng and it worked within 5 minutes. > > My only problem in setting up CUPS was that the drivers for my > printer (Epson Stylus Color 800) did not work. I saw something > in the manual about difficulties with long parallel port cables > (mine is 3m), but this had never been a problem before.
Hmmm. I used to use my Stylus Color 850 quite succesfully (until the damn thing broke). Now using a Styls C82, also installed via CUPS in around 30 seconds. Tip: use the web interface to CUPS, it's so much easier. -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood| |Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |phone: +1 250 370 4452 | Hermann Scherchen. | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
