[SLUG] Redhat printtool.
Greetings,
Being new to the world of squirting ink onto dead trees - I am currently
fiddling with the latest version of ghostscript/rhs-printfilters and other
miscellany..
Firstly - the printers in question aren't postscript capable.. secondly, I
would prefer not to have X on this machine.
It appears that the only simple('ish) way to setup non-PS printers is to
use the silly printtool - but it's X only... or is it?
Assuming that I don't want to use printtool or it is X only - how does one
setup the appropriate "filters" for a particular printcap entry? Is there
a site where one can find a collection of files per particular printer, or
specs per printer - or is it "bugger around until the damn thing works"?
Danke muchly..
//umar.
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Re: [SLUG] Redhat printtool.
Umar Goldeli wrote:
...snip...
It appears that the only simple('ish) way to setup non-PS printers is to
use the silly printtool - but it's X only... or is it?
The simple way is to edit the /etc/printcap file by text editor. There
are basically two formats; local or remote; simple.
"bugger around until the damn thing works"?
It will seem that way.
Special config for the filters I use is done in the general.cfg file
in the /var/spool/lpd/printer directory.
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Re: [SLUG] Redhat printtool.
There's another alternative: apsfilter. This is especially good when your sysadmin has installed lprng, this making it difficult to use printtool. It comes with a console tool for defining queues in printcap that can automatically determine (in most cases) the type of file being printed and invoke the right filter chain. I was lazy and just whacked the SuSE RPM onto the work RH system and it worked. But it's not hard to build from source. -- This mail sent via NLC WebMail: http://www.nlc.net.au/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Redhat printtool.
Firstly - the printers in question aren't postscript capable.. secondly, I would prefer not to have X on this machine. Do you need to actually have X on the machine to run this ? I thought you only needed the Tcl/Tk stuff i might be wrong. But for what its worth, i have a headless box at home, that i have aprinter attached to and i use the printtool to configure it just using remote x display. You could always use the rpint tool to get it up and running and then just unistall the xlibs if you actully need them Jason -- GnuPG Key 2450EEDC Jason Rennie[EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 1A2B 5E34 B45A 2871 A488 99C7 7579 5FFC 2450 EEDC -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Redhat printtool.
I ended up installing lprng, apsfilter and all the other goodies neccessary... it all generally works beautifully now, apart from remote printing - but I'll figure that out eventually. Danke all.. :) //umar. There's another alternative: apsfilter. This is especially good when your sysadmin has installed lprng, this making it difficult to use printtool. It comes with a console tool for defining queues in printcap that can automatically determine (in most cases) the type of file being printed and invoke the right filter chain. I was lazy and just whacked the SuSE RPM onto the work RH system and it worked. But it's not hard to build from source. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
