I'm sorry you've had trouble printing things, Paul. I guess I'm lucky there: I've never had any problem printing with Windows - XP or Vista - or Mac's System 7, years ago. Quality has never been an issue either. And I don't recall any problems with the few pages I printed in Linux Mint - at least not until it decided my printer didn't have enough ink for it to work. (Which it was wrong about. :) )
Meg --- In [email protected], "Paul" <pfrederick1@...> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], William Horne <whorne504@> wrote: > > > > I am running Ubuntu 10.10 I can not get the printer to work in Ubuntu works > > fine in windows xp. Any suggestions? > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > Print in Windows? > > But seriously now printing can be a complicated beast no matter what the > platform. Linux likely wouldn't even exist today if not for a certain someone > not getting the source code with a new printer. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman > > But then again we're not all St. IGNUcius now are we? > > Anyhow I just wanted to illustrate the gravity of printing with a historical > perspective to illuminate the fact that this is isn't Linux vs Windows vs > OSes that don't even exist anymore! Printing has always been an issue. I've > actually found printing to be much better at times in Linux than I've seen > Windows do with the exact same hardware. > > But in all fairness I never setup a Postscript preprocesser in Windows either > like I have in Linux. > > http://i.imgur.com/ZTPRr.jpg > > The same file printed in Windows and Linux, I just used scissors to cut each > print out in half so I could display them together better. I'll let you guess > which printed what (Hint: how I said it is how they are in the pictures > Windows, Linux). > > So now that should establish my pedigree with respect to printing on Windows > and Linux platforms. Along with a bit of viva la difference thrown in for > good measure. > > I'll be honest I'll strike up a deal with the Devil if it gets me the results > I'm after I really don't care. The ends justify the means for me always. > Often my ends aren't simple so I am willing to do what it takes in order to > achieve them. In case anyone is wondering what those lovely prints were > they're a resist mask for an acid etching process to make a printed circuit > board and they have to be rather accurate, to within one hundredth of an inch > or better. > > They were both printed out on a Postscript type 1 printer with limited RAM in > it and like I said I wasn't using a Postscript preprocessor on Windows, just > printing direct. Windows did the best it could which ended up being something > on the order of 36 DPI (note the faint pencil marks on the lower left of the > print on the left where I marked out the "dots") on a printer mechanically > capable of 300 DPI. So I assume Windows just did the math and sent the > printer as much data as it figured the poor old thing could handle. > > Linux obviously used other trickery to achieve superior results. That > trickery is called Ghostscript. > > http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ > > Sounds spooky and it is! Now I've read this thread and no one has made > mention of this mysterious creature at all. Let me tell you I've done a bit > of printing in Linux and without this jazz unless you're printing plain text > you're NOT going to get what you expect! > > Printing on Linux is still a lot like how Fred Flintstone drove to work, feet > through the floorboards! In order to achieve superior results you are going > to have to feel the pebbles beneath your feet. You WILL have to do some grunt > work, and burn up a LOT of shoe leather in the process as well. > > Sure things are a little better today than they were back in the bad old days > of LPRng and editing your printcap file but not by much! Whenever I setup a > printer on Linux it still takes me some time to completely tweak it to get > maximum benefits from the hardware (lately I've just been printing in Windows > myself due to a variety of circumstances). Personally I prefer how it used to > be over how it is today, it was more robust and cut and dried as to what > needed to be done. Made the user take some note of the entire process as well. > > So in conclusion if you want to print on Linux understand how filters work, > and how to work with filters as well, how the print spooler works, each step > in the complicated dance that has to happen to get a job through the system. > When you're done the ends just might justify the means. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CUPS-block-diagram.svg > > The word of the topic is gestalt. Without this concept Linux printing will be > frustrating at best. Nothing worthwhile is ever easy. Good luck! > ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! 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