[vox-tech] printer question
Rick Moen
vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Fri, 12 Jul 2002 21:03:03 -0700
Quoting Peter Jay Salzman (p@dirac.org):
> i hate setting up printers; maybe because i know so little about how
> printing works.
It's not just you: Everyone passionately hates Unix printing. I do
everything humanly possible to stay away from it.
Consider throwing out the entire lpr mess, and installing CUPS and the
gnome-print filters ("drivers"). Or PDQ in place of CUPS.
http://www.linuxprinting.org/howto/spoolers.html
http://www.linuxprinting.org/howto/background.html
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