Dave Sherohman wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 12:13:57PM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > > Brian, what's been said about CUPS is true, and that's what I use. > > I guess you haven't heard all that's been said about CUPS...
I meant on *this* thread. :-) > > In any case, any system you use is going to need a recent Ghostscript > > with support for your printer linked in > ... > > You'll want the cupsomatic package, which is in Debian testing now. I > > notice there's a ppd for the stp driver and for the stc740ih.upp > > driver. > > I use CUPS with a Stylus Color 880 and the stock stcolor.ppd from the > cupsys package. No ghostscript. No cupsomatic. It just works. > > You'll need something more than the vanilla stcolor.ppd to get access > to >720 dpi or any special features of your particular model, but, > for the vast majority of users, it should be sufficient. > Good point. I do a lot of printing from Netscape; it seems to want to output in ps format, and I'm pretty sure I need gs in there somewhere!
