Hi everyone, As a result of my printer breaking down catastrophically, I have come to realize that I have precious little iedea of how printing works, how CUPS is different from other systems, etc. So, first of all, this is a question: can anyone recommend a relatively approachable guide to the subject?
Second, I thought I'd ask whether the general notion I have of the print process is correct. I reckon it's something like this, at least with CUPS, which I use (or rather, don't use, isnce for the past 4 months my printer has steadfastly refused to print: - the printer communicates its existence to the kernel, which assigns the printer to a device file. - The printing system recognizes, or is told about, the printer, and interacts with it through a 'driver' - when a print command is issued by the user (either via the gui or the command line) this command is passed to the print system, which assigns the job to a printer after passing it through a set of filters, at least one of which is probably ghostscript, which converts to (or is it from?) postscript. Is this right? And I guess what I really want to know is: is CUPS really my best bet for printing, given that I've been having such difficulty with it at the moment? I just imagine there must be a simpler way: some way of passing the printjob to PostScript for parsing, then to a printer-specific driver, then bakc out, without bothering with CUPS. I say this because, while I love the CUPS in terface, I just can't get the damned thing to work for me right now!! I figure if I could work at a (very slightly!) lower level, I might be able to figure out where the problem is -- as it stands, stuff just doesn't ocme out of my printer right now!! I's pretty frustrating. anyway... thanks as usual, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
