"Keith G. Murphy" wrote: > > Dave Sherohman wrote: > > > > > > I use CUPS with a Stylus Color 880 and the stock stcolor.ppd from the > > cupsys package. No ghostscript. No cupsomatic. It just works. > > > 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! > Ah! I figured out what the deal is, using top and old Debian developer postings. :-b
If you use stcolor.ppd: ps output -> pstoraster -> rastertoepson -> printer And CUPS' pstoraster filter actually *is* a minimal build of gs. If you use cupsomatic: ps output -> gs+stp -> printer It really uses the default gs on your system.