The installation of CUPS also includes GIMP-Print, very sophisticated
drivers for colour inkjets, especially Epson. Look when you install your
printer after you have installed CUPS, choose an entry in the printer
list with "CUPS+GIMP-print v4.0". After the installation you can call
"calibrate-gimpprint" to calibrate the colours. Instructions for the
installation of CUPS see below,
Till
Stop LPD by
/etc/rc.d/init.d/lpd stop
and backup your /etc/printcap file. Remove the "lpr" package and related
packages:
rpm -e --nodeps lpr
rpm -e --nodeps rhs-printfilters
...
Download the following RPM packages from a download site for Linux
Mandrake 7.2 (or copy them from the first CD of Linux Mandrake 7.2), DO
NOT download the packages from the Cooker:
cups
cups-drivers
ghostscript
ghostscript-module-X
ghostscript-module-SVGALIB
ghostscript-utils
xpp
qtcups
samba
samba-common
samba-client
Install the "cups" package with
rpm -Uvh --nodeps cups-1.1.4*.rpm
Set links for easier access to the CUPS shell commands:
cd /usr/bin
ln -s lpr-cups lpr
ln -s lpq-cups lpq
ln -s lprm-cups lprm
cd /usr/sbin
ln -s lpc-cups lpc
Now install all the other downloaded packages with
rpm -Uvh <package file name>
Start CUPS with
chkconfig --add cups
service cups start
Go to http://localhost:631/ to get to the web interface for
administration of CUPS and to the documentation of CUPS.
marcia wrote:
>
> Dear All, Whenever I print with Linux I get a garbled couple of
> sentences about every 5 or so lines. This does not happen with Windows.
> My printer is an EPSON Stylus color. Is there anyway to fix this? If I
> downloaded the cups printing software would this fix it? I have Mandrake
> 7. complete so what would be a good cups download? Thank you for your
> help. Sincerely. Marcia
