Aharon Schkolnik wrote:
> Today I was looking at some Hebrew web pages, and decided to print
> something out. I was disappointed to see that all I get on the printed
> page is some numerals and punctuation marks. (I used http://www.gov.il
> for testing).
First of all, which distribution are you using?
Second, which printing technology (spooler) i.e. lpr, lprng, cups,
cups+foomatic?
Third, which printer are you trying to print onto? Is it postscript?
Fourth, how is the printer connected? local port (lpr,tty,usb), remote
ethernet? On another system?
My experience which does not include Hebrew, is that Rh9 with cups works
often, to make it work properly I had to add foomatic routines from
linuxprinting.org that were missing, using linuxprinting.org's ppd (postscript
printer definition) and configuring the printer using the cups html gui instead
of the redhat gui.
In addition you would have to add the Hebrew fonts to the ghostcript version
that cups uses and the ppd.
At home, Ihave a complicated setup though, I have 4 printers (2 laser, 2
inkjet) across 2 floor on 3 servers, one of them windows, 2 of them linux
running samba and one also running netatalk. In the end it was worth it,
you can print on any printer from any machine including linux (rh9 and
YDL3) , windows, MacOS9 (PPC) and an emultated 68040 Mac (MacOS 7.5.5)
running under linux.
I also have other real UNIX* machines,e.g. A/UX, ESIX SYSVR4, Solaris, come and
go depending upon my mood, space and electricity. They fit right in usually
using cups' LPR support.
The other words of wisdom I can offer is make sure to RIP the postcript
on the server and if you have color inkjet printers define them twice,
once as text and once as color (in my case photo quality).
In fact one of my printers is attached via a parallel port to a RH7.2 system
running LPR. :-( Instead of upgrading it to cups, I just direct everything
to it to the printserver running cups on RH9 and have that server send
via LPR the RIPed files as PCL.
Geoff.
* I define real UNIX as an operating system someone, usually me, had to
pay a license fee to at one time which eventualy was paid to AT&T.
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