Noah silva on Mon, 24 Jun 2002 09:50:02 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] CUPS Printing?



On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:

> 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"!

It probably is, it is whatever comes with Debian Woody.

> >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.

I think the problem is that the driver isn't ever being called.

 -- noah silva 
> 
> 
> LDR


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