[PLUG] CUPS Printing?

[Noah Silva <nsilva@atari-source.com>]

Hi,

I just got a new printer (An OkiData LED printer), and installed and
tested it with a driver.

The driver works such that you give it a .ps file, and it will convert
it (it calls ghostscript) and send it to the printer... and hence it
will print.  

This works ok, but isn't terribly useful unless I want to convert
everything to PS files on my hard drive and then manually print them
from a command window.

I was going to install lpd, but I asked around and was recommended to
used CUPS.  I installed the debian package, but of course it doesn't
actually know about the printer.  Following the CUPS tutorial, I should
do something like:

lpadmin -p OkiData -E -v parallel://dev/lp0 -m okidata.ppd

to add the printer.  Here is where the problem comes in.  There is no
okidata.ppd.

Any ideas?  Anyone have experience with CUPS?  Should I just use LPD?

thanks,
    noah silva




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