on Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:57:40PM +0800, David Palmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I don't know about the HL1440, but Turboprint drives the HL1270N, HL1450, and > the HL1470. > Regards, > > David. > > > /quote:Hello, > > after minor difficulties I've gotten cups to work on my decrepit > laptop, using a brother hl-1440 laserprinter (the printer interprets > PostScript on its own, though I think it doesn't use the Adobe > interpreters). ?Right now it seems to be working well (though for a > while it was printing strangely at unpredictable intervals, and I keep > worrying it will resume its ugly old habits). ? > > But I only have 96 megs of ram, and cups seems unnecessarily lrge, > given that I don't want to act assa printserver or anything. ?I DO, > however, want to print pretty documents from OpenOffice & one or two > other programs (possibly sometimes gimp). ? > > Are there any workable alternatives to CUPS? ?Any alternatives that > folks actually RECOMMEND using? ?It would be great to run a somewhat > leaner print system...
CUPS *is* the alternative. If you want lighter, install lprng or lpr, which are classic 'Nix printer systems. Note that there are a few areas on GNU/Linux in which support is...cumbersome. Fonts, sound, and printing are probably the big three. CUPS, when it works, which is pretty damned much always, is bone-numbingly easy to set up. The results are very clean, and it supports a huge range of hardware. As for "lean", cupsd is sucking down 2764K on my system, which I can gladly spare. If you have a postscript-enabled printer (and it appears you do), and it works off of ethernet, you can get by with a simpler system. Neat bit about Debian is that you can remove, but not purge, cups. Try out lpr and/or lprng. See if it works. If it doesn't, just reinstall cups and you're cooking with gas (as Peter would say). Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Defeat EU Software Patents! http://swpat.ffii.org/
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