[Gllug] Fwd: seeking advice (about printer support on GNU/Linux)

[Stig Brautaset]

> Dear sir,
> 
> I am Company Secretary of Kerala Shipping and Inland Navigation
> Corporation Ltd. (INDIA), a Govt. of Kerala Company engaged in Inland
> Navigation. I amincharge of computerisation of this Company. We have
> invited tenders for this process and it is in the final stage. Being
> interested in the Linux platform we had emphasised  this in the tender
> and asked the parties to quote for both windows and LInux platforms.
> 
> As a trial I have installed MANDRAKE linux in one of the machines. The
> installation went smoothly. i installed the OPEN OFFICE as the office
> suit.
> 
> But now I am facing a problem that none of our printers is supported
> by Linux. We are having the following printers: (all dot matrix
> printers)
> 
> 1. Epson LQ300 ESC/2
> 2. Wipro LQ1050
> 3. EPSON FX 1170
> 4. TVSE MS P345
> 

Try the "apsfilter" package, or the "foomatic" package from the linux
printing project.



Stig
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