On 02/19/2008 04:50 AM, Stan Goodman wrote:
I wrote to the mfr of the printer, enquiring if there is a driver that would upgrade my printer to Postscript support. In answer, I was told to d/l this file:
cupswrapperHL1250-1.0.2-1.i386.rpm
Two questions: 1) This seems not to be a 64bit file; can I use it in my x86_64 machine?
Probably not without modification, i.e. path, and maybe more.
2) There is a dependency problem with it: it reqpires lpr (which, from the name, I would have thought to be already on the machine from the beginning). YaST doesn't offer a file of that name, but only another called lprng, which it claims to be an enhanced lpr. But lprng won't install because of conflict with a 64bit file with the same name.
Don't use it, that is an older printing system than cups.
What to do? Is there a way to use the new driver?
I would recommend to just use the correct cups driver for your printer. If there is not one listed for that model already, download it from http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Brother-HL-1250 and make sure you get the cups ppd file, found at http://openprinting.org/ppd-o-matic.cgi?driver=hl1250&printer=Brother-HL-1250&show=0 and it should work just fine. It will know how to render the postscript output to a suitable printer driver language your printer supports. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org