[Wylug-discuss] RE: CUPS -aarrrgggg + hp-ijs

[James Holden (Wylug)]

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ALLEN, David wrote:
| Thanks for all your comments, but after spending (wasting) several days
| trying to get it to work, I have given up on hpijs. I found a
postscript ppd
| which works OK.
|
| Much as it pains me to say it, this is one area where windows really
scores,
| and "linux on the desktop" will suffer until the printer manufactures
start
| producing easy to install/reliable drivers.
|
| Wash your mouth out with soap I hear you all cry................
|
| David
[snip]

I'm inclined to agree. The only area of Linux I've spend (wasted)
significant amounts of time in has to be printing.

I'm not convinced it's driver problems. When the whole shebang actually
works the quality of the output, particularly the gimp-print drivers, is
actually very good.

I have problems with the spooling mainly. It seems that large print jobs
just disappear. If I produce a document in OO.o with several bitmaps in
it, the CPU load indicates that *something* is happenning, then nothing
comes out and the job disappears from the queue.

Adding printers stinks. It's supposed to work 'just like that' with
CUPS, but they expect me to pay for an easy way to install GPL printer
drivers????!

CUPS was supposed to be the answer to all the printing headaches, but it
just isn't as far as my experience goes.

James


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