On 27 Dec 2002, Keith Winston wrote: > On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 19:06, Lanny Marcus wrote: > > > Possibly you can check your Printer Settings (LPRng or CUPS), to see if > > that is configurable. I'm using CUPS and Printing is the one issue we > > have with Psyche. It will, hopefully, improve, with future releases. > > Printing from MS Windows is much nicer today than printing from Psyche, > > to our HP 6L LaserJet. > > My comment is not about Mozilla, but printing in Linux. If you want > printing to work _almost_ as easy as in Windows, you need a native > Postscript printer, which the HP 6L is not. Printing to a PCL printer > will always be more difficult from Linux because the native print > language is Postscript and it has to be converted to PCL by a filter > which not only can produce inconsistent results, but is by definition > twice as slow. Many of my printing issues went away when I got a native > Postscript printer. In fact, my home printer, Lexmark Optra E322, > prints Postscript and PCL. HP also makes several models that support > Postscript and PCL. You pay a few dollars more, but it is very much > worth it. > > Best Regards, > Keith Well, I have a native postscript printer, an older IBM 4019 PS39 laser. It won't print at all using Mozilla including the most recent release 1.3x. If you check the Mozilla buglist you'll see a large number of postcript printing problems. Mozilla's postscript module stinks. I believe my problem is that it only prints in postscript 3 and my printer is too old to support that version. The recommended fix is to install xprint but I haven't figgered out how to get that configured yet. -- Gerry "The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne" Chaucer -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
