On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 17:03:34 -0500 Joel Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I can't offer much advice about cups. BTW, I gave up using CUPS when > I had permissions problem with it. Who needs those things? lprng works > fine. Why bother with the latest and greatest if the tried and true > works fine? I still use ipchains. > > I don't use gimp printer drivers either. lexmark supplies a nice > configuration and testing tool with its drivers. > > Basically, I just use a basic lprng setup, with the lexmark supplied > filter specified in printcap. > > This is my printcap. It isn't pretty but it works. > [ snipped ] > ps|z53 filters jobs. > Photo filters jobs, but I edited the filter to use a configuration > file which prints hi quality images to photo paper. If you dissect the > print filter, it is easy to do. > lp is to dump the print image right to the printer. This is required > for printing test pages, since they do not need to be formatted or > filtered. As > > I dimly recall, z53-outfiles is the magic name here for the > configuration program to use. [ snipped ] > POC (Piece of cake). > Well, the cake's a little dry <grin>. I backed out cups and gimp-print and installed lprng, got the Lexmark driver (bummer: it's a freaking rpm, so I had to emerge rpm <groan>). The rpm, of course, found none of its dependencies, but they all verified (had to emerge slang), then I could install with --nodeps. I'm using your printcap. Got the spool directories allocated, and LPD is started, but no joy. cat tiger.ps | lpr -P ps puts the file in the spool, but lpstat says there are no files to print and no server running. checkpc only complains about the z53Photo.sh filter, which I don't have. Any suggetions? -- Collins Richey - Denver Area gentoo 1.4 system _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
