[Wylug-discuss] CUPS

[ALLEN, David]

Hi,

I have installed the cups version of ghostscript and it started working!
Could someone please explain in simple pre -school language what is the
connection between cups and ghostscript? If I send a raw text file to the
printer, is it converted to postscript for the printer by ghostscript?

I have found a very useful site for ppd files, www.linuxprinting.org

David

-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Stockill [mailto:jon at stockill.org.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 2:28 PM
To: wylug-discuss at wylug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Wylug-discuss] CUPS


On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, ALLEN, David wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Has anyone had any experience with CUPS? I have compiled it on one of our
> suns without to many problems and raw printing is working OK with a
> postscript printer. However, when I add a driver with the -m option, the
> software stops printing.
>
> What is the connection between CUPS and ghostscript? The documentation
says
> ghostscript is only needed for non-postscript printers, not our case. I
have
> installed ghostscript but it did not have any effect.

ISTR that in the default config the line for ghostscript is commented out,
which caused me no end of frustration, since everything was installed, but
it never actually called ghostscript to rasterise the output for my
deskjet. Check the config files to make sure nothing you need is commented
out - the web config interface isn't much help in this.

--
Jon Stockill
jon at stockill.org.uk

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