printpro is ESP Print Pro, a commercial extension of CUPS which also
contains CUPS itself. It provides many printer drivers and graphical
frontends for administration and printing. As I know, the version coming
with Linux Mandrake is a demo which expires after one or three mounths.
In reality, you do not need ESP Print Pro with Linux Mandrake 7.2. There
are many free frontends: kups, xpp, qtcups, printerdrake, web interface
(You find them all in the menues under "Configuration"/"Printing" and
under "Applications"/"Publishing"). There are also lots of free drivers
and most of them lead to a better printing quality than the drivers of
ESP Print Pro (especially the GIMP-Print drivers). You do not gain
support of extra printers with ESP Print Pro, for Lexmark winprinters
the support by free drivers in Linux Mandrake is even better. Also for
PostScript printers you do not need ESP Print Pro, use the PPD file
delivered with the printer.
To install the CUPS updates you have to deinstall the printpro package
with "urpme printpro".
Till
Laszlo Gulyas wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> Question for the group - went to MandrakeUpdate to get the new updates for
> CUPS, and upon installing them a message came up about CUPS conflicting with
> printpro. What is printpro - I couldn't find it in the menus.
>
> Laszlo
