On 12.11-12:58, Girish Venkatachalam wrote:
[ ... ]
> Thanks. I definitely stand corrected. I definitely meant PDL and not
> PCL. My memory failed due to lack of proper understanding. Sorry...
often make the same error.
:-)
[ ... ]
> I want to know what happens behind the scenes when you
On 11.11-18:31, Predrag Punosevac wrote:
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> Could you give any comments about LPRng please?
only that i have never really needed it. the stardand lpr distribution
has always been sufficient. i've never tried to deploy complex
groups/queuing/policies with lpr except under AIX (which has it
On 21:22:19 Nov 11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> PCL is a printer control language. PS is a stack based programming
> language with graphics primitives for drawing. it may also be
> classed as a PDL (page description language).
Thanks. I definitely stand corrected. I definitely meant PDL and not
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 11.11-06:51, Girish Venkatachalam wrote:
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Now I only know what you people seem to be saying about PPD files and
drivers. I have never used CUPS either.
However long ago I have read that postscript is a PCL - printer command
language.
And most printers thes
On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 10:43:42AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 09:57:56PM -0500, William Boshuck wrote:
> > ... you can use rg in /etc/printcap.
>
> IIRC, LRNng also lets you make it easy so that, for example, if you have
> 1000 users in 100 work groups, with 100 work
On 11.11-06:51, Girish Venkatachalam wrote:
[ ... ]
> Now I only know what you people seem to be saying about PPD files and
> drivers. I have never used CUPS either.
>
> However long ago I have read that postscript is a PCL - printer command
> language.
>
> And most printers these days support pr
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 09:57:56PM -0500, William Boshuck wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 08:46:19PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > ...
> > And this is the big difference between lpd and LPRng. With LPRng you
> > can specify who can use what of those printers even if all the
> > originators a
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 08:46:19PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> ...
> And this is the big difference between lpd and LPRng. With LPRng you
> can specify who can use what of those printers even if all the
> originators are on the same box. I think that lpd just lets you specify
> what boxes ca
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 12:04:57PM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote:
> Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> >On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 04:30:51AM +, Jacob Meuser wrote:
> >>On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 07:15:11PM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote:
> >The difference between lpd and LPRng is one of access control. Ha
On 13:32:21 Nov 10, Aaron W. Hsu wrote:
> There used to be an article on the web about dealing with LPD printcap files
> and setting up filters. I used it to set up one of my HP printers. The
> process
> is really quite simple if you know what your printer's magic incantations
> are.
> However
Jacob Meuser wrote:
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 01:20:14PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all,
I would like to get some advise on printing with apsfilter on 4.2. I
have an Epson CX5400 multifunction printer that I normally use with the
Gutenprint drivers and CUPS on other Unix systems. I
Predrag,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> As LPD is good enough itself to set the plain text to printer I want to see
> what is the easiest way to tell printer how to understand ps files If that
> could be done with build in filter in LPD or the one that come with base
> installation (I have to read m
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 04:30:51AM +, Jacob Meuser wrote:
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 07:15:11PM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote:
Any strong opinion on LPD vs LPRng vs CUPS issue? I am not a
professional system administrator and there is way too much Linux an
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 04:30:51AM +, Jacob Meuser wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 07:15:11PM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote:
> > Any strong opinion on LPD vs LPRng vs CUPS issue? I am not a
> > professional system administrator and there is way too much Linux and
> > CUPS around me for my
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 07:15:11PM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote:
> Could you please give me some more explanations. Are you saying that the
> Epson printers will not work with CUPS even if the appropriate PPD files
> are reachable by CUPS.
yes. you need the right driver. PPD files are not d
Jacob Meuser wrote:
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 01:20:14PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all,
I would like to get some advise on printing with apsfilter on 4.2. I
have an Epson CX5400 multifunction printer that I normally use with the
Gutenprint drivers and CUPS on other Unix systems. I
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 01:20:14PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I would like to get some advise on printing with apsfilter on 4.2. I
> > have an Epson CX5400 multifunction printer that I normally use with the
> > Gutenprint drivers and CU
> Hello all,
>
> I would like to get some advise on printing with apsfilter on 4.2. I
> have an Epson CX5400 multifunction printer that I normally use with the
> Gutenprint drivers and CUPS on other Unix systems. I am only using this
> as a local printer, so I don't r
Hello all,
I would like to get some advise on printing with apsfilter on 4.2. I
have an Epson CX5400 multifunction printer that I normally use with the
Gutenprint drivers and CUPS on other Unix systems. I am only using this
as a local printer, so I don't really need something as elabora
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