[TriLUG] Re: RedHat 9 and cups

[Lance A. Brown]

Setting up printing is still too difficult, and CUPS doesn't make it 
much better.  You can do damn near anything with CUPS, but you need to 
read the CUPS docs and understand how it works to do so.  It's not 
plug-n-play like Windows printing is.

Given that, http://www.linuxprinting.org is your friend, seriously. 
It has the best coverage of what printers work with Linux under CUPS, 
LPRng, lpd, etc.  What drivers you need, what printing subsystems, 
up-to-date PPDs for CUPS, etc.  It's my first stop whenever I need to 
deal with linxu printing these days.

I have an Epson Stylus C82 working perfectly on a parallel port 
connection from my FC1 box at home and my girlfriend's Win98 box 
prints to it perfectly as well using the from-CD installed driver for 
the printer.  At the time I purchased it, the C82 was the recommended 
moderate-cost color inkjet printer on linuxprinting.org and I've been 
pleased with it.

--[Lance]

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