On Wednesday 28 April 2004 01:22 pm, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> Roy J. Tellason wrote:
> > The list of printers that comes up when I'm in the "Add Printer Wizard"
> > (Ugh! Why did they have to use that word?) is pretty short, and the
> > brand of the printer I'd like to add isn't in there. It's an IBM Laser.
> > Can anyone point me to where I can get further info to put in there?
> My wild guess is that you installed CUPS and only CUPS.
Probably. As opposed to doing what?
> IIUC, to use CUPS with other than PostScript printers and a few models
> (including Epson) you have to either purchase their driver package or
> install additional software.
>
> http://www.linux printing.org/cups-doc.html
I forgot to mention in the earlier post that this _is_ a postscript printer.
Or so I was told, "It's got a postscript card in it". I got a .pdd file for
it from that site, it didn't seem to help much, the software now complains
that it can't find a postscript driver? Something like that.
> I think that you can use Foo-Matic with CUPS.
>
> I think that there is a version of GIMP-Print for CUPS.
>
> Or, IIUC, you can obtain a MODIFIED PPD file that will let you use CUPS
> with your GhostScript device with CUPS-O-Matic. But, it appears to have
> vanished. :-(
I guess what I need at this point is some way to tell the software that I'm
using this printer, and that it can handle postscript...
Somebody else mentioned a kde-printer list, maybe I'll have a look for that
one as well.
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