Re: What's the current best printing arrangement? (HP P1000)

2001-05-27 Thread Stuart Krivis
I found that Mandrake offers an rpm of drivers for CUPS that works rather well on Debian too. The quality of the drivers varies from printer to printer. An HP 8000 was supported very well, while a Lexmark Rn+ showed poor results. I went back to lprng and magicfilter, but I generally only prin

Re: What's the current best printing arrangement? (HP P1000)

2001-05-18 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 04:27:23PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Now I know what to do! (But it wasn't obvious!) > > Agreed. The cups postinstall should point you to localhost:631 to find docs. Time to file a wishlist severity bug report. > > So I configured i

Re: What's the current best printing arrangement? (HP P1000)

2001-05-17 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 04:27:23PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > Now I know what to do! (But it wasn't obvious!) Agreed. The cups postinstall should point you to localhost:631 to find docs. > So I configured it and ran a test page. Works. I then printed a > colour graph I had just print

Re: What's the current best printing arrangement? (HP P1000)

2001-05-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I wrote: > I've been using a combination of magicfilter and lpr (and now > lprng), for a long time to print to inkjet printers. Today I > tried a new HP photosmart P1000 printer at work and searched for > the best way to make it work. > > Using magicfilter from testing/unstable, I pick the dj55

What's the current best printing arrangement? (HP P1000)

2001-05-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Hi, I've been using a combination of magicfilter and lpr (and now lprng), for a long time to print to inkjet printers. Today I tried a new HP photosmart P1000 printer at work and searched for the best way to make it work. Using magicfilter from testing/unstable, I pick the dj550c filter but it a