Viktor Haag wrote: > Martin Costabel writes: > > On mardi, juin 25, 2002, at 11:43 , S�bastien Maret wrote: > > > Well, I do not manage to print with lpr on OSX. It seems > > > that command line printing on a network postscript printer > > > is not supported yet. > > > > This is wrong. Command line printing using 'lpr' works. You > > have to declare the printer in netinfo, however. See 'man 5 > > netinfo' > > As far as I could tell, you had to put printer entries in *both* > the netinfo database *and* /etc/printcap. That's what worked for > me.. > > > > It should be supported soon with the CUPS (Am I wrong?) > > > > I'll wait and see. Right now, cups on OSX is at least as > > broken as OSX's own printing system (and most other Unix > > printing systems): Beautiful web interface, but impossible to > > configure unless you have special insider information, > > sometimes it works, but most of the time "it just doesn't > > work" (TM), print jobs are dropped or forgotten, and there is > > no meaningful error message whatsoever. (Sorry for the rant, > > but I just spent one hour to try and print 2 simple postscript > > files :-() > > I hear you Martin. When using CUPS on Linux I ran across all > sorts of esoteric and finicky problems. Most specifically, I had > to end up hand-editing the PPD files
What sort of PPD files? What was the source for those? Did they ship with the Linux distro? Which distro? Were they downloaded manually? Were they PPDs as provided by http://www.linuxprinting.org/? Were they CUPS-O-Matic- or PPD-O-Matic-generated ones? [PPD-O-Matic ones in general are "better".] Were they PPD-files for PostScript- or for non-PostScript printers? In general, you should never need to "hand-edit" a CUPS-PPD file (unless you really know what you do and you want to tune things like page-margins etc., for applications that read the margins from the PPD, etc.) -- and I personally never needed to do this, neither for PostScript printers nor for non-PostScript printers... > for our print devices so > that the local CUPS config utils would know about all the options > available to them (i.e. duplexing). > This may only mean you had the wrong PPD installed for your printer... > Not pretty. > If you were right, lots more Linux CUPS users would be dissappointed too. But this is hardly an occurance heard off, fortunately.... Cheers, Kurt -- +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | .--. CUPS + ESP PrintPro: | | |o_o | | | ~ |:_/ | Unix/Linux Printing made fun and easy | | � � // \ \ http://www.danka.de/printpro/faq.html | | /V\ (| | ) .~. Kurt Pfeifle, Danka Deutschland GmbH | | // \\ /'\_ _/`\ /V\ Tel.: +49-172-715.7017 | | /( )\ \___)=(___ )/( )\ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | ^`~'^ ^^~^^ http://www.danka.de/apple-cups-en | |Network Printing Services: Consulting+Training+Workshops+Troubleshooting| +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
