On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, John Meagher wrote: > Thanks Chris. > I kind of suspected that, but the whole printing business is > so complex my first suspicion is always that I've configured > something wrong. I should have checked. > > I was able to get around the problem, at least for practical > purposes, with the Printer System Switcher GUI tool. > One click and CUPS is history and you're back in business > with lprng. > > I would really like to find a good explanation somewhere > of how all this stuff fits together. Linuxprinting.org is a start, > but they don't cover the distribution specific hacks very well. > The Red hat docs treat it all from the gui level now. Short of > studying the source and scripts, is there any up-to-date howto > covering what goes on in, and troubleshooting of, Red Hat > printing? At least for CUPS, linuxprinting.org pretty much covers it. Just click on the CUPS Docs links under Foomatic. Red Hat's print system is CUPS+Foomatic+ghostscript with optional additional drivers from gimp-print and others. Figuring out how that mess works together is interesting but not specific to Red Hat. The redhat-config-printer stuff mostly automates futzing with configuration and PPD files, and there is some trickery with symlinks so LPRng and CUPS can coexist. Linux printing has improved quite a bit, thanks to CUPS and the like. There was a time when being able to specify printer-aware duplex, resolution, quality or dithering options from a dialog box would be only a dream under Linux. Chris
