On Sun, 2001-12-30 at 12:17, FX Fraipont wrote:
Maura Edelweiss wrote:
My advice would be to uninstall lprold or whatever non-cups printing package you may have. The may pages of gibberish you had sound typical of the old lp package.
Then make sure you have Cups installed. I would then advise you to download a copy of turboprint (www.turboprint.be), and install it. It works with cups, and provides a driver for your printer, which is probably much superior to whatever generic driver cups has. You can test the colour option, but it will print with a logo. If you don't want the logo, buy the program, it's only $19.
I know it's a commercial product, but if there is an area of Linux on the desktop that really needs improving, it's the printing system. Cups is definitely a step in the right direction, but until printer makers release Cups drivers for their printers, it will remain a choice between limited features with an open cups driver, of full features with a commercial driver.
Before turboprint, I tried Easy print pro, but TP is definitely superior: I use an HP deskjet 940, and TP is the first driver that has given me the same quality in Linux as in Windows.
Happy new year
fx
If you don't want to use TurboPint, you can use the GIMP-print plugin for CUPS. (http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/) I use CUPS with GIMP-print for my Epson Stylus 660 and it works fine. Epson even have their own GostScript driver. Have a look at http://www.epkowa.co.jp/english/linux_e/pips_e.html I see that the C60 is supported by this. -- Andre Truter Software Engineer Registered Linux user #185282 ICQ #40935899 <-------------------------------------------------> < The box said: Requires Windows 95 or better... > < So I installed Linux > <------------------------------------------------->