[vox-tech] Gentoo printer font problem

[Bruce Wolk]

Ken Herron said the following on 05/26/04 05:06:
> --On Tuesday, May 25, 2004 06:00:24 PM -0700 Bruce Wolk 
> <bawolk@ucdavis.edu> wrote:
> 
>> I haven't emerged foomatic again yet, but I did change the print
>> command in firefox to "kdeprinter" and tried the hp1300nt.ppd driver
>> again. This time I actually got a chance to select the printer and it
>> actually sent the job to the printer instead of nowhere, but it printed
>> a page with an error message and instructions on using ghostscript.  I
>> have never seen anything like this!  It starts out as follows:
>>
>> The Postscript interpreter in your printer is 2014.116
>> This printout requires at least version 2015 or greater.
> 
> 
> Mozilla has two methods for printing on unix. The basic printing module 
> generates postscript which can be piped to another program such as lpr 
> or kprint. This is what you're using right now. When mozilla (or firefox 
> or thunderbird) is built with freetype support for printing, this module 
> uses a postscript feature that's only available at implementation level 
> 2015 and up, mozilla adds code to the print job to print the error 
> message if the printer is missing the feature.
> 
> For best results, you should look into installing the xprint package on 
> your system, as I think someone else suggested. Once this is installed, 
> mozilla should be able to use its xprint support, which generally 
> provides better results.
I don't know anything about Xprint.  What will it do to my system?  What 
happens to CUPS?