[aclug-L] Re: Linux printing

["gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman)" <glandix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Try using APSFilter (search on freshmeat.net)...  that is what i've used
in Debian, Slackware and now FreeBSD and it has worked flawlessly (once i
figured out which filter to use w/ my Epson Stylus Color 400)...  very
easy to setup, too...  just follow the on-screen directions!

gLaNDix

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On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Andrew J. Peck wrote:

>
> I will tell you what, you advise helped me.  Thi I was not in the same boat, 
> my
> printer worked fine with Red Hat and printool but I was to lazy to configure 
> it
> with debian and I couldn't find printool as a pacage. (my c compiler is
> unreliable)
> I looked for magicfilter and lo and behold there it was,  I set up my printer
> without any fuss.
> I would just like to thank you for the tip.
>
>
>
> John Reinke wrote:
>
> > Discouraged Bruce,
> >
> > I'm pretty sure that "worthless" HOWTO addresses the issue of one
> > line beginning where the previous one ended. Either way, I'd suggest
> > that you try a package called "magic filter" which can configure your
> > system to work with a wide array of printers. That is what I used to
> > get an old non-postscript laser printer to print everything,
> > including postscript files. (It filters the data through ghostscript
> > to perform that trick.) I don't remember much about how to set it up,
> > other than it wasn't very difficult, and it has worked perfectly ever
> > since.
>
> <snip>
>
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