[SLUG] CUPS Printing Question
Hi all, This is probably a fairly simple question, but i cant figure it out from the cups manual. I have an epson stylus colour 800 inkjet printer. It wors fine with linux, except i have a small problem with the paralell port on my computer. It doesn;t seem to work at all. Neither under linux or windows. Which dashed my first plans to hook my printer back up to my computer. Then I dug out an old intel netexpress printserver in a box i had lying around and set it up with lpd and samba facilites on it. Now I set cups up to point to this lpd printer, and plain text prints absolutely swimmingly. However when I try to print postscript to the printer, it prints post script all right, four pages of text post script commands, rather than a nice rendered image. Now what I want to know, is there any way to rasterise this image before i send it over the netowrk to the printer ? Or convert it into something useful for the printer, without having a whole second computer, seeing as this printserver is only being used becasue of an apparently faulty parralell port ? Any ideas ?? Jason -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] CUPS Printing Question
Hi all, This is probably a fairly simple question, but i cant figure it out from the cups manual. I have an epson stylus colour 800 inkjet printer. It wors fine with linux, except i have a small problem with the paralell port on my computer. It doesn;t seem to work at all. Neither under linux or windows. Which dashed my first plans to hook my printer back up to my computer. I have one of the epson color 12?? printers and it works very well with cups and the standard suse lpr script all right, four pages of text post script commands, rather than a nice rendered image. That obviously wont work as it is not a postscript printer. Have you used the correct driver with CUPS the epson printers are supported, although I dont know about the 800 Now what I want to know, is there any way to rasterise this image before i send it over the netowrk to the printer ? Or convert it into something useful for the printer, without having a whole second computer, seeing as this printserver is only being used becasue of an apparently faulty parralell port ? Cups has a modified version of ghostscript to do this I think. Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
