> >Hi! Servus!
> > > >Please forgive any (more or less) ignorance, I´m not so new to > > debian/gnu/linux, but it´s the first time I hit the printing and > > apt-get source themes. Well, probably, I'm not the right one to answer this, but I'll give it a try. > > > >1: If I checked the docs[0] right, I have to compile ghostscript myself > > to get an additional driver[1] into it? Yes, AFAIK, unless you use the unified printer driver (uniprint, I think to remember). These use external configuration files. In any case, gs comes with many printers precompiled. Are you sure you can't find a compatible one which works for you? > >1a: How would one go for that on a debian[2] system? apt-get source gs; > > <make changes as in [3]>; make; make install; ? This seems to be a logical approach; but I would download the last sources from the gs site and install into /usr/local. As soon as debian includes this driver, it'll be easy to drop it. Maybe you can ask the debian maintainer? > >2: What drawbacks are there for a self-compiled gs (other than not > > being apt-get upgrade-able)? If there weren't, what are the debian developers for? They manage to integrate everything nicely and don't allow things to break, no matter what you do (at least they try to ;-). > > > >If anyone has additional pointers to get the printer, one gs works, > >also up&running for M$-clients via samba, I´d be most grateful, also > >;-) But I´ll dig into that once I printed my first page locally... AFAIK, gs is not involved in printig via Samba; you could specify a generic postscript printer in Windows and send that to gs; but generally you get better quality by using the Windows driver from the manufacturer and printing to a raw printer. HTH a bit. Christoph Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
