I'm using Red Hat 7.3 and KDE with a Epson C80 printer
When I print I get a gui window on the screen and one of the sections called print systems asks me if I want to use one of the following;
CUPS Print through an external program (generic) Generic UNIX LPD print system (default) LPR/LPRng Print System RLPR environment (Remote LPD server)
What are all these things? Is there a preferred one? Where can I read up on "Linux Print Systems"?
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On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Mel Seder wrote:
I'm using Red Hat 7.3 and KDE with a Epson C80 printer
When I print I get a gui window on the screen and one of the sections called print systems asks me if I want to use one of the following;
CUPS Print through an external program (generic) Generic UNIX LPD print system (default) LPR/LPRng Print System RLPR environment (Remote LPD server)
CUPS is the new Common Unix Printing System. It's quite good.
It's at www.cups.org.
What are all these things?
Printing methods.
Is there a preferred one?
If you're just printing locally, prolly any one will do.
Where can I read up on "Linux Print Systems"?
How about at the Linux Documentation Project?
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO/index.html
Scott
On August 29, 2002 11:04 pm, Mel Seder wrote:
Where can I read up on "Linux Print Systems"?
www.linuxprinting.org:
"Welcome to the LinuxPrinting.org website. This site contains a number of resources to help you with your printing problems under free operating systems as GNU/Linux, *BSD, Darwin and under UNIX-based systems as Solaris, Mac OS X, HP-UX, and others. It includes the Printing HOWTO, a printer support database, a project list, printer vendor scorecards, the Foomatic printing infrastructure, and more.
"Researching a printer purchase? Start with suggested printers, or browse the database.
"Looking for help? If the HOWTO and database don't help you, try asking a human in the forums."
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 09:04:33PM -0700, Mel Seder wrote:
I'm using Red Hat 7.3 and KDE with a Epson C80 printer
When I print I get a gui window on the screen and one of the sections called print systems asks me if I want to use one of the following;
CUPS Print through an external program (generic) Generic UNIX LPD print system (default) LPR/LPRng Print System RLPR environment (Remote LPD server)
What are all these things? Is there a preferred one? Where can I read up on "Linux Print Systems"?
I certainly prefer cups, since it seems the easiest to setup, and the most flexible for using the printer features, and kde has a very nice interface to it. Of course which one to pick depends onwhich printer server you are using and how you configured it.
Lennart Sorensen
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