On 15 Jul 2007, Roger Leigh wrote: > Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I agree about lpd. I've found magicfilter to work better for me than > > either CUPS or apsfilter: easier to set up and more reliable. > > This may well be the case for specific uses. However, magicfilter has > not had a new upstream release since the 17th of March, *1996*. If > you want to use a printer less than 11 years old, you're SOL unless > you want to start writing your own filters. It also has quite a lot > of bugs which won't ever be fixed seing that it's unmaintained since > 1996. > > I just found that there's now a newer magicfilter (magicfilter2, > http://directory.fsf.org/all/Magicfilter.html) which might well > replace it. > > I used to use magicfilter extensively... back in 1999 when I first > started printing with GNU/Linux and started writing printer drivers > and tools. However, eight years later there are better options which > are actively developed and supported, whether you choose CUPS or > LPRng. Foomatic is such a replacement, and is what distributions like > Mandriva use for their LPRng setup. It will support all the > contemporary printer drivers, to boot. >
I found magicfilter2 a year or more ago; both this and the version packaged for Debian seem to work equally well. I emailed the maintainer suggesting he might like to upgrade the package but never got a reply. My printer is a lot newer than 11 years old - Kyocera Mita FS-1010. I use the ljet4 filter. I did use Cups for a time but it didn't place the pages quite correctly, which magicfilter does. Foomatic looks possible but I don't see any point in replacing something that is working, perfectly well for me. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
