| Andreas Klemm on Mon, 14 Jan 2002 00:10:14 +0100 (CET)(envelope-from owner-apsfilter-help@apsfilter.org) |
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| Re: Opinion Sought |
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 10:45:11PM +0000, John Seago wrote: > I simply asked for an > opinion on which one of HP's current printers would be most compatible > with Apsfilter. Apsfilter is "only" a shellscript that combines utilities in a clever way. Its not so important, that apsfilter supports your printer ... Adding a printer is a relatively simple task. Most important is ... you need a suitable ghostscript driver that produces high quality graphics and text printouts. Or you need a true Postscript printer. Then you don't have to fiddle around with different gs printer drivers ... but thats of course more expensive, especially a color PS printer ... Somebody already pointed you to linuxprinting's webserver. There you have to learn, which printer (Epson, HP, xxx) currently has the best driver support in ghostscript with respect to print quality, speed, options. Of course the printer should be affordable for you etc ... And currently I think apsfilter supports nearly _every_ interesting ghostscript and 3rd party driver for printing. So don't panic concerning apsfilter ;-) Linuxprinting has all the information you need, printer driver ranking, user reports and so on to draw a decision what model to choos price / features / gs driver - wise. Keep using Slackware if you like. But you should keep an eye on permissions. I fear you have to deinstall the "stock" Berkeley lpd compatible printer scheduler and replace it with LPRng, in the hope, that this automatically fixes printing problems you have, that might be related to permission problems, which has been reported by Slackware users repeatedly in the past. Andreas /// -- Andreas Klemm Apsfilter Homepage http://www.apsfilter.org Support over mailing-lists (only!) http://www.apsfilter.org/support Mailing-list archive http://www.apsfilter.org/Lists-Archives Songs from our band >> 64Bits << http://www.64bits.de Inofficial band pages with add-on stuff http://www.apsfilter.org/64bits.html