On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 09:04:29PM -0800, Kahli R. Burke wrote: > Sounds cool. I have been using CUPS and found it to be pretty useful. > The GIMP Print driver for my HP Deskjet 932C is crappy compared to the > Windows one though. I looked at a driver HP put out for these printers > a while back, but it looked like a pain to get installed. I would have > had to get the source to a few different packages like ghostscript and > patch them with this extra module for the HP printer, then recompile > them and so on. I decided it wasn't worth the time. My printing works, > but it's a lot slower in Linux compared to Windows, and the output > doesn't look quite as good.
That HP driver is the basis of the IJS driver that was added to ghostscript. The real question is, when will print filters know how to use the newer ghostscript drivers? They have different commands than traditional ghostscript options. AFAIK, only foomatic knows the stp options, and I don't think any filters know what to do with IJS yet. -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (who is subscribed to the foomatic, CUPS and Gimp-Print mailing lists `cause none of these packages are available as OpenBSD ports, for now at least ;) PS There will be a prerelease of Gimp-Print 4.2.1 RSN PSS If you haven't already, it's highly recommended to upgrade CUPS to v1.1.14 - fixes exploitable buffer overflows in previous releases. (A project on my back burner - s/sprintf/snprintf/g in CUPS sources) PSSS Run CUPS as an unprivileged user!!!! (Not even as lp/daemon)
