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Re: [hfdb] Printer data/ "driver" formats
From: |
Zenaan Harkness |
Subject: |
Re: [hfdb] Printer data/ "driver" formats |
Date: |
Tue, 27 Jul 2004 12:02:21 +1000 |
On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 12:19, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> > I've heard of linuxprinting.org (obviously), the foomatic drivers,
> > various driver projects (like lprng, cups, lpd), and the whole thing has
> > never seemed remotely approachable from an end-user point of view. Every
> > time I do (Debian) "apt-cache search printer|grep -i print", there are
> > so many things to choose from, that the task of researching even enough
> > to understand it all has lead me to continue with what I was doing
> > previously :(
> >
>
> It's a lot of stff together:
>
> Driver
>
> low-level
>
> kernel, HPOJ, ...
>
> printer language
>
> HPIJS, Gimp-Print
>
> Spooler/printing system
>
> CUPS, LPRng, PPR, PDQ, ...
>
> PostScript/PDF renderer
>
> GhostScript
>
> Integration of the driver in the spooler/printing system
>
> Foomatic
>
> Printer hardware compatibility database
>
> Foomatic
Awesome! Thanks for that.
> > In particular, given Joe Shaw's recent email re: foomatic, a comparison
> > between foomatic and linuxprinting db.
> >
>
> More about how to use Foomatic:
>
> http://www.linuxprinting.org/cups-doc.html
> http://www.linuxprinting.org/lpd-doc.html
> http://www.linuxprinting.org/ppr-doc.html
> http://www.linuxprinting.org/pdq-doc.html
> http://www.linuxprinting.org/ppd-doc.html
> Instructions to set up print queues
>
> http://www.linuxprinting.org/USAGE
> USAGE file of the foomatic-db-engine package
>
> http://www.linuxprinting.org/foomatic-filters/USAGE
> USAGE file of the foomatic-filters package
>
> More about how Foomatic works
>
> http://www.linuxprinting.org/README
> README file of the foomatic-db-engine package
>
> http://www.linuxprinting.org/foomatic-filters/README
> README file of the foomatic-filters package
I didn't even realise that foomatic and linuxprinting were like one and
the same thing!
Thanks heaps, and now I have even more reading to do :)
cheers
zen