On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Faheem Mitha wrote:
> > > On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Brian McGroarty wrote: > > > I've never configured a printer under Linux. I've got an Epson Sylus > > Color 740i hooked up via USB, and I've got it to the point where I can > > cat files directly to the device and see them printed. > > > > I'm a bit baffled by the number of choices of packages which are > > available, as well as the number of printing systems to choose from, > > from cups to lpr to half a dozen other choices. > > > > 1. Do all of these printing systems need to be configured for printing > > to work in most apps, or are they complementary? > > You'll need to set it up. I strongly recommend trying to get cups working. > There is a guide for getting cups/gimp-print working off > www.linuxprinting.org which you might think worthwhile looking at ( > http://www.ebbs.com.au/~mark/cups-gimp-print.html ), and it actually > mentions Debian. Note also that there is a nice frontend called qtcups for > cups. There are others, but this is the one I use. Note by the way, there are fairly recent packages of cups and gimp-print in testing/unstable, so you probably won't need to mess around with tarballs. Faheem.
