On Sunday, December 30, 2001, at 09:17 AM, FX Fraipont wrote:
Gnu iBook 2 wrote:
On Sunday, December 30, 2001, at 02:30 AM, FX Fraipont wrote:
Sorry, its www.turboprint.de and not .be.... I forgot to say it had been reviewed on Slashdot recently.
Yes, it was reviewed, and the general conclusion was that it is junk, and complicated to setup. If I remember correctly, the recommended solution was the gimp-print drivers. In many cases people get better quality using gimp-print then using Windows what-ever.
Obviously,, you did not read the same reviews......
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/23/1424236&mode=thread
Yes, it's the same reviews. Here are some comments from the slashdot article:
Cons: limited printer support tarball install missing dependencies Pros (or why should I use this over standard KDE print config/RedHat printer filters/anything else): Perhaps your obscure WinPrinter is supported
Nice effort guys, but there's no real value here.
So what does it do that cups & gimp-print doesn't?
and
http://www.linuxlookup.com/html/reviews/software/turboprint1.4-1.html
Which says :
Installation ::
TurboPrint for Linux comes as a tarball containing 'install' and 'uninstall' shell scripts, installation instructions, and all the binary software.
<cut> Don't forget:
The default printing would be in black and white, and when I want to print in colour, I can just change the print command used by the program from 'lpr' to something like 'lpt -Ptp0'.
There are always various ways of doing things, I am glad turboprint worked for you, but it does not sound to me that it is easier and/or higher quality then cups & gimp-print.
Not exactly junk.......
I've been using Suse as my main OS for three years, and have used an Epson Stylus 600, HP Deskjets 500, 890c and 940c,and colours with the cups drivers have always been bad , like a very thick coat of ink when printing photographs on photo paper for example, which would take hours to dry.
I downloaded turboprint after reading the Slashdor review, and was so pleased with the free version that I decided to fork out the 19 Euros to by it...
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