On 05 Sep 2003, David Palmer 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... > > thanks again, > matt/unquote.
When I bought my new printer (Kyocera Mita FS1010) I spent a couple of days trying to get CUPS to work but didn't make much progress. However I've had no problems with lpr and magicfilter. I don't use Openoffice but I can print without problems from everything I've tried (mutt, phooenix, etc). However, for reasons I don't understand, if I use kernel 2.6.0-test2 I cannot print anything except plain text via lpr; no success with jpg files. 2.4.22 is fine. AC -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://www.acampbell.org.uk using Linux GNU/Debian || for book reviews, electronic Windows-free zone || books and skeptical articles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]