> The stock BSD lpr package shipped with most distros is pretty horrible,
> but I've been through all the software available, and found cups to
> quite nice.
Gotta agree with that very much so.
>
> Cups supports the IPP (Internet Printing Protocol), and uses PPD
> (postscript printer definition) files to drive the printers. I had the
> software installed, and the six printers (Lexmark, Xerox and Brother)
> working nicely in an hour, using the free drivers from the cups-drivers
> package, and that included setting up queues to print from different
> trays, for letterhead and invoice stock, and also a duplex queue for
> each.
>
> As a bonus for those who are that way inclined, there's a reasonable
> web-based frontend, and you can do most all configuration and printer
> management from this... useful to pass printer management
> responsibilities to the users :-)
>
> The config files are easy to work with, no printcaps and filters to work
> with, and creating a Cups client is as easy as installing the software
> and creating a client.conf pointing to the server... very nice.
>
> I guess all my experiences with this software have been with PS
> printers, but as the drivers package use ghostscript to do the
> manipulation, it's fairly versatile.
>
> http://www.cups.org for the server, http://cups.sourceforge.net for the
> free drivers.
>
THanks brad,
I looked at cups, but haven't tried it. I got stuck on LPRng.
I'll try CUPs next, I hope it makes it easier to specifc a custom paper size
for this tractor printer i need to print to.
thanks,
dave
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