I used to fight with such insanity constantly.
However since printers are frequently sold and shipped
with a basically undocumented interface, and more than half the time
these filter utilites are barely reverse engineered POS's I decided
long ago that fighting with them was counterprodocutive. easily 2/3 of
the time (depending on your printer model) they are unreliable at
best.
simple answer, postscript printers are cheap. find a printer that
speaks postscript and avoid all the nonsense. I got one (LexMark
C510) a year and a half ago for $325 CDN that speaks postscript and
talks to my print spooler on ethernet, and most of my printer woes
went away.
* Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-07-14 08:11]:
> I'm wondering what the OBSD people generally use for print filtering. I
> have an old IBM PC Graphics printer (dot-matrix) attached to my debian
> box but everyone there seems to use CUPS. I could just as easily
> connect the printer to my OBSD box.
>
> The last time I used this printer to print postscript was a few years
> ago. It was connected to a debian box running LPRng but debian's gs
> did't have a driver that would work. I ended up using foomatic and
> gs-esp with the ML 320 driver.
>
> foomatic and cups seems like going overboard for something so simple.
> So what do OBSD people use?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Doug.
>
--
#!/usr/bin/perl
if ((not 0 && not 1) != (! 0 && ! 1)) {
print "Larry and Tom must smoke some really primo stuff...\n";
}
