Joel Mayes wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (W. Paul Mills) writes: > > > Cups, while designed to be quite flexible seems to not at present > > have support for much anything unless you want to buy it's > > creators products. Or write your own filters. > > I'm not sure thats true, if you install cupsys-driver-gimpprint and > cupsomatic-ppd you get support for over 1000 different printers
You may be both right. http://www.cups.org/software.html says: The CUPS distribution only provides sample drivers for HP and EPSON printers. If you need drivers for other printers, or want commercial- quality printer drivers, please visit our ESP Print Pro page for information on our commercial printing solutions. ESP Print Pro supports thousands of printers and includes graphical interfaces to CUPS. And `ESP Print Pro Standalone on CD-ROM' (not a license to server as a print server) sells for US$95. However, the cupsomatic-ppd package _does_ have a bunch of ppd files (913 in the version on woody), but it is distributed by www.linuxprinting.org and not by www.cups.org. -- Now, with projects such as CUPS and http://lpr.sourceforge.net/ (GNUlpr) http://sourceforge.net/foundry/printing http://hp.sourceforge.net/ http://hp.sourceforge.net/uhowto/eps-uhowto.php (Enhanced Printing System) I'm left wondering how all the pieces fit together. It's all very confusing to me. Peter
