[lug] setting up CUPS....

Bear Giles bgiles at coyotesong.com
Sun Jan 29 11:19:20 MST 2006


Lee Woodworth wrote:

> Bear Giles wrote:
>
>> I decided to try CUPS, but nothing is printed.  It's an HP LJ1200 on 
>> the parallel port, I specified everything on the web admin page, 
>> manually specified the correct PPD file with lpadmin.  Still, 
>> nothing. I don't run either KDE or Gnome, but the docs said that it's 
>> wizards are helpful but not necessary.
>
> I didn't think the 1200 had native postscript. Are you sure that's what
> the printer wants in raw mode?

Yup, it has native PS.   It may be a little confusing since 
Mozilla/Firefox require a slightly newer version so you have to call 
ghostscript in its printer command, to downconvert.

Bear



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