>From Matthew Daubenspeck on Tuesday, 2003-03-18 at 11:27:12 -0500: > On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 04:01:18PM +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > A preliminary attempt to set up CUPS was rather demanding and I'm > > wondering if there is much point on a single-user system. Most of my > > printing is quite straightforward (plain text and only occasional > > images) and it works well with apsfilter or magicfilter, so is there any > > reason to spend several hours trying to get CUPS to work? Any > > significant advantage with that system? > > I could NEVER get CUPS working, but I will admit the setup is a bit > strange. I have the local spooler collect jobs and route them to a bunch > of HP JetDirect printers. Like I said, with CUPS, this never worked. > > I gave up, installed lprng and it worked within 5 minutes.
My only problem in setting up CUPS was that the drivers for my printer (Epson Stylus Color 800) did not work. I saw something in the manual about difficulties with long parallel port cables (mine is 3m), but this had never been a problem before. I have tried to get CUPS working both under Debian and under Mandrake, and both times I had the problem that, sooner or later, the printer starts printing out garbage, and I cannot get things working again. Like you, I gave up and installed lprng (with printtool). Now the printer is stable again. Conrad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]