My 2 cents worth as well. I am using cups with Mandrake 7.2/Samba 2.07. It works
great. I have no idea how I got it to work, it just works. I did have to mess
with the print drivers to get it to print correctly to the HP Laserjet 4 on my
secretary's WinME machine, but once I got the right driver it works great. It
doesn't matter if I'm printing from kedit, kwrite, kmail or piping man pages from
the console, it just works. To say the least, if I was able to get it running
with my limited (but growing) Linux prowess, CUPS can't be all bad. (now if I
could just get the page breaks to line up when I print the man pages -- ahh, but
that is for another time)
Ken Thompson wrote:
> On Sunday 11 March 2001 10:17 am, you wrote:
> > There has been another round of "cups bashing" lately;
> >
> > I for one wanted to go on record as being impressed with all
> > the work Till has put into cups and getting the drivers for so many
> > different printers updated. Sure there are glitches now and then,
> > though generally for me it is due to the fact that I did not read the
> > detailed instructions/manual available at mandrakeuser.org
> > concerning my paticular problem or forgot what I read.
> >
> > There is even a way to contact Till directly though he is VERY BUSY,
> > and I have had paticular problems solved that way.
> > Try mandrakeuser.org before giving up.
> > After reading ALL the documentation and exchaging emails with Till ,
> > you still can't get cups working for you then okay;
> > nothings perfect :)
> >
> > William Bouterse
> > Talkeetna, Ak
>
> I just want to add my $0.02 worth, CUPS is, as far as I'm concerned, the best
> thing that has happened to linux printing yet.
> I have 2 "Win" printers that I invested a lot of money in without realizing
> they were <ugh> WinPrinters. Until CUPS came along I was not able to print to
> either of them under linux AND the HP722c can be networked now . Keep up the
> good work fella's I at least am here to cheer ya on.
> CUPS installed and worked for me out of the box for HP 722C, HP 842C, HP648C
> and Epson Stylus Color. NO additional configuration had to be done.
> --
> Ken Thompson
> Electrocom Computer Services
> Payette, Idaho 83661
> (208) 642-11701
> Web: http://www.nwaa.com
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
