Leonard Rosenthol on Sun, 23 Jun 2002 22:59:52 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] CUPS Printing?

At 9:47 PM -0400 6/23/02, Michael F. Robbins wrote: 
But make sure you have ghostscript installed
(apt-get install gs).

And make sure that it is version 7.0 or later - since older versions "suck rocks through a garden hose"!


Hmm...  I thought that the hardware layer, like parallel in this case,
comes after the interpreter layer (i.e ghostscript).  So that's probably
a good sign.  Make sure your parallel port has proper permissions.


It does. CUPS first renders (via GS) to the bitmap and then sends the bits to the driver to deal with hardware.


LDR
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