Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3784 mails)

[Roger L.S.Griffiths BSc (Hons) <roger.l.s.griffiths@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 29 Oct 2001 3:37 pm, jk05308 wrote:
> > > It is a GDI printer.   It won't work under lpdold, and with CUPS
> > > it won't work unless it is listed when you do "gs -h", which list
> > > the supported printers in the GhostScript gs_lib file,. I
> > > recently returned a Samsung ML4500 for that very reason.
> >
> > I have a Samsung ML4600 and have it working under Linux fine. YaST
> > CUPS Configuration utility provided with SuSE 7.2 has the Samsung
> > ML4500 listed despite it being GDI.
>
> YaST2 pulls the mfgr name and model number from the printer bios, but
> it fails to recognize the printer regardless.  I, too, am running a fully
> installed SuSE 7.2 and when I do a 'gs -h' on GhostScript (where the driver
> actually is) the ML4500 is NOT listed.
ghostscript (ie gs) does not list my ML4600 either, but my printer is 
supported according to YaST CUPS Config via three different mechanisms:-
	Foomatic + lj5gray
	Foomatic + ljet4
	Foomatic + pxlmono

The ML4500 is listed as being supported by ONE mechanism
	Foomatic + gdi

The ML6000/ML6100 printers are supported by ONE mechanism
	Foomatic + ljet4

I got this information from YaST2 without any printer connected, just try 
adding a printer manually with the CUPS printer configuration utility.

> http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/ke_printer-gdi.html
>
That document has not been updated since August 2000 (over 1 year old)! I 
think it might be somewhat out of date.

Anyway, maybe someone could shed some light on the Foomatic business? 

TTFN

Roger
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Roger L.S. Griffiths, BSc (Hons)

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