I have a Brother HL1450 laser printer on my parallel port. I used to use the Postscript driver but had problems with some documents overloading the printer's memory, so I switched to the hl1250 driver. Unfortunately LaTeX/dvips output doesn't look as good now---I assume this is because it is being converted from DVI to PS and then to Brother.
So I'd like to know if there is any easy way to switch between them, just for local printing. I'm considering adding a second printer to /etc/printcap with the same device (/dev/lp0) and other specifications but a different driver, so I can use the lpr -P option as necessary. Is this idea good, bad or ugly? Should I use the same spool directory (subdirectory of /var/spool/lpd/)? (I have the following packages installed: magicfilter, cupsys, cupsys-bsd, cupsys-client, cupsys-driver-gimpprint, cupsys-driver-gimpprint-data, cupsys-pt.) Thanks, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]