Linux printing with cups can be a real shell game

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Jan 18, 2008 10:19 AM EDT
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One of the most frustrating parts of the Linux world is printing. If the printer is a postscript one then there are no problems at all and printing is as easy as just identifying the printer as a single line in a printcap file and away you go. Most modern, low end printers and color printers are not postscript and to make matters worse, their drivers and method of printing are dependent on the windows operating system for much of the work. Fortunately manufactures are slowly (oh, so slowly) recognizing that there are other operating systems than windows and are providing crude drivers so their products can at least produce an output under Linux.

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