[Gllug] Fwd: seeking advice (about printer support on GNU/Linux)
Stig Brautaset
stigbrau at start.no
Mon Nov 18 11:17:33 UTC 2002
> 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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