| ID: | 5634 |
| From: | ka...@aspodata.se |
| Date: | Thu, 12 May 2022 12:57:07 +0200 (CEST) |
| Subject: | Printing in general |
| in-reply-to: | 5630 from rn...@igor2.repo.hu |
Igor2: .. > Related question: how does this feature work on your system? Do you have > lpr installed? I though modern linux desktop moved to CUCP. Or does CUCP > emulate lpr? Most linuxes seems to use CUPS, partly because that is what is wanted by some applications like libreoffice. Gimp and firefox are not really prepared to printout with lpr. Cheap inkjets are best supported by CUPS, mostly because lacking support for lpr style printing. Foomatic has, at least formely, had the attitude that users shouldn't mess with the internals of postscript to printer conversions, to the extent of not publishing information about it, so it has been harder than nessesary to make printer filers for lpr to such printers. And yes, manuf. wants big bloated "printer drivers", not any simple filter. Gentoo has removed lpr, so you have to install it separately if you want it. /// I personally use postscript for everyting printing related, and pdf limited to viewing on screen and sharing with others. Regards, /Karl Hammar
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