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Re: Wonderful!
by Jon on Wednesday 05/Dec/2001, @06:48

Postscript printers have (obviously) always been supported well.

For the newer printers, you have a lot of choice... particularly with tools like gimp-print developing decent support for modern inkjets and lazer printers.

CUPS + gimp-print is already the default printing system in Mandrake. I hope it spreads through all the other Linux distos, and all the other UNIces as well.

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Re: Wonderful!
by John on Thursday 06/Dec/2001, @07:34

You don't need gimp-print with cups. I think most distro's ship the cupsomatic backend now, and linuxprinting.org gives you an enormous database of printers to choose from to generate printer specific PPD files that make use of it. I've got this config working for an OfficeJet K60 and the quality is as good as Windows. Didn't need gimp-print at all. I did need the HP ptal driver kit to get the actual connection to the OfficeJet working, but that has nothing to do with KDE or the printing part per-se, just the connection over USB.

John

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Re: Wonderful!
by Michael Goffioul on Thursday 06/Dec/2001, @09:15

Some of the drivers from Foomatic are based on gimp-print. Actually, the stp driver for ghostscript IS gimp-print. So you may still use gimp-print without knowing it (gimp-print driver is usually compiled in ghostscript in recent Linux distros).

Michael.

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