On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 07:48:45PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > On Tue, 27 May 2003, Marist EDU wrote: > > > Thanks to all who responded. On my original problem I stated I was having > > problems installing the glib-config and pkg-config sources on SLES7. Once I > > RTFM for the 10th time I figured out that these packages are just driver > > packages for the non-post-script printers. With that in mind I went after > > the post-scirpt printers first and got those working. > > > > Very Important safety tip on Print Servers, make sure the users have rights > > to write to the spool directory and it EXISTS. haha. > > > > John, you mentioned that gs might not be a good fit for 390, can you please > > elaborate on that? > > Ghostscript requires lots of CPU power to interpret postscript which, > after all, is an interpreted language. >
But since we're talking about postscript printers, ghostscript rendering won't be needed with them, right? Let the printers do the rendering. > Best to have your client machines deliver to the print server whatever > your printers expect. IA32 MIPs are cheap, and odds are you don't use ten > percent of them. > Yes, but don't forget that this increases the network load. It may also reduce the quality. Though windows' postscript driver is a really bad one. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+
