Peter Linnell wrote: > Hi Celio, > >>>>>>I compiled the version 1.1.7 on a stock Mandrake 10 Official box >>>>>>with no problems except that I can't print to my HPLJ1300 anymore. >>>>>>The printer labors a while and nothing comes out. >>>>>> >>> >>>>>This is a frequent issue with Black and White laser jets when printing from >>>>>Desktop Publishing Apps - I've seen this with LJ4 and 5, as well as newer >>>>>HP 2xxx printers with Pagemaker, Quark Xpress and Indesign. >>> >>>>Yes, and it's ugly - the printers don't show any specific reason why they >>>>stop >>>>working... >>>>
As someone using laptop with several (at least 6) different printers, I can say that there should be a warning in CUPS that the drivers for a lot of printers are incomplete and in many cases wrong. You really can't rely on CUPS telling you that xxxx is the *recommended* printer. The Omni drivers seem especially lacking. Furthermore, when they do work, they hang in the middle (with a message like "DATA RECEIVED") and in general they are much slower. I was using the turboprint drivers a few years ago and was very happy -- for example, with turboprint you could print .tex files and it would do the processing in the background and just give you the PS result -- but when the big push for CUPS came it was more difficult to use turboprint for some reason. Greg Pittman
