Hi there. Sorry for jumping in late in the thread.
On Dec 08 2009, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 08 Dec 2009, Girish Kulkarni wrote: > > After my problems with CUPS --- discussed in a previous thread > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2009/07/msg01157.html --- I > > decided to move to LPRng for print job spooling. /me wears the hat of the magicfilter maintainer. :-) Nice. :-) lprng and magicfilter is a killer combo. Once they are configured, things "just work". I, BTW, print everything that I need with the pcl3 drivers from ghostscript to inkjet printers (well, that's what I have at my disposal) and I can switch between 3 different HP printers (just unplugging them and plugging). I also have an Epson Stylus Color II printer (that's connected via a parallel port) and it works fine with this setup also. The only problem that I have is me forgetting to turn the printers on, but no software would take care of that anyway. :-) > > While it possible that I wasn't using CUPS correctly (I tried!), I > > clearly can use LPRng with far less effort. Well, I may be called an "old-school" Unix user, but I like the traditional Unix way of doing things and lprng fits my needs very well. But there is some danger here: lprng is an orphaned package in Debian (which means that it currently has no one looking after it). If you want to ensure that it has a long life, please help maintaining it. > > I wonder then why Debian prefers to bundle CUPS as its default print > > spooler? Pointy clicky interface, perhaps? (But if I am not mistaken, there are some GUI interfaces for lpr/lprng also). > I very much agree with this. I ditched CUPS two years ago or longer in > favour of LPRNG plus magicfilter. Much easier to set up and the results > are better. Unfortunately a lot of apps these days expect you to be > using CUPS as a matter of course. Herd mentality. One hint that I included in the NEWS file of the lprng package: ,----[ NEWS.Debian.gz ] | lprng (3.8.A-2.1) unstable; urgency=low | | Programs based on the gtk library (which includes a lot of popular | programs in Debian) have lost the ability to print to lpr/lprng. | | A way to work around this problem of gtk+2.0, please use: | | + for a one-user setup, include an entry in the file .gtkrc-2.0 in | your home directory with the line: | | gtk-print-backends = "file,lpr" | | + for a system-wide setup, include the same line in the file | /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc | | It may happen that your setup will be broken again if GTK 3.0 doesn't | read the gtk-2.0 files or don't provide an appropriate upgrade path. | | -- Rogério Brito <rbr...@ime.usp.br> Mon, 18 May 2009 21:36:28 -0300 `---- Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : rbr...@{ime.usp.br,gmail.com} : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://rb.doesntexist.org : Packages for LaTeX : algorithms.berlios.de DebianQA: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=rbrito%40ime.usp.br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
