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...
Yes, read the CUPS documentation. Specifically, how to open the web-browser setup for CUPS where you shouldn't have any problem telling CUPS that it is a PostScript printer.
Somebody else mentioned a kde-printer list, maybe I'll have a look for that one as well.
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