And just to give you an example, by selecting to print this email. I get a box (much like windows), where I can select properties. There I can select driver settings, through which I can set the print quality from draft (300dpi) to best (2400dpi) and this is a cheap lexmark printer. On Monday 27 October 2003 17:11, Graham Smith wrote:
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 05:09, Damon Register wrote:
I have a HP 932C and HP Laserjet 1100
some give more options? I didn't know what to pick so for the 932C I selected the one labeled foomatic + gimp (I think). By the way, what the heck is foomatic?
See http://www.linuxprinting.org/foomatic.html for full details. Foomatic was introduced into SuSE 8.2. It is used to generate the PPD's (driver files) used by the different printers.
I notice that you are currently using SuSE 8.0, there have been a lot of changes in CUPS and the drivers since then. If you are wanting photo quality output from your printer it may be a good idea to upgrade to SuSE 9.0 instead of trying to get the latest drivers working with your version.
As I said ealier you may have to experiment with the different drivers to find one suitable for a particular task.
-- Regards,
Graham Smith ---------------------------------------------------------