Haines Brown wrote: > I stayed clear of CUPS because I'm running a stand-alone work station, > and it seems to open a range of hurdles to overcome. What I'm using is > just the default printer system (woody).
uuh... i thought CUPS _was_ the default printing system? try installing it... honestly you will be pleasantly surprised how easy it is to set up! once installed, if debian does not already configure it for your own printer, then point your web browser to the cupsd local configuration tool http://localhost:631/admin and you can do all kinds of configuring and setting up from there. if you need any printer config files [.ppd files] (i suspect you will not), then go here: http://linuxprinting.org once your printer is set up, try printing a PS file from the ocmmand line with `lpr file.ps` and let us know if it works. i suspect the programs which were able to print OK, were all writing raw information to the printer device, rather than through some printing system. don't be afraid of running servers like cupsd on a workstation; if you have a printer attached to a computer, the unix way will always be to treat that computer as a print server. you have no problems running an X server just for your machine, do you? ;-) > When I run dvips on a dvi file, it generate what I can > only assume is a proper .ps file, but the output > never gets to the printer. thats normal; as Antonio Rodriquez pointed out, the package maintainer has changed the default action of the program `dvips` to output a postscript file instead of sending it to the printer. i for one welcome this change as it seemed to be the only *2ps program which printed instead of creating a PS file. i don't know how you would change the default action, however. hope that helps, cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fhsst Sam's Homepages http://fommil.homeunix.org/~samuel http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~samuel
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