[cups.general] Cups

[Guenther Frick]

Bernd Schubert wrote:

> Well, I don't know if you consider debian to be a printer-friendly distro,
> but it currently has certain problems with epson inkjet printers. 
> My bugreport is here:
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=235522
> 
> The debian maintainer still didn't answer. I also posted the problem to this
> list but got no answer. Later another report regarding debian+cups+epson
> was posted to this list, but Vittorio also got no helpful answer.
> 
> It might be a usual behaviour for windows users that only 1/3 of all
> available drivers is working and that log messages doesn't even give an
> idea about the problem, but for unix this is really bad.
> 
> Another funny story is that the cups http configuration frontend doesn't
> list all drivers. For the epson stylus C82 only the non-working
> (Cups+gimprint) driver is listed, but not the working driver
> (foomatic+gimprint-ijs). Without the kde-printing manager I even wouldn't
> have known about the other driver, since even its ppd is not listed at
> linuxprinting.org.
> 

You will get more acurate answers in the forum of linuxprinting.org
or that of gimp-print:
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=4359

The present forum only deals with problems of the printing system itself
while the other forums are for problems with drivers.
> [**] After updating our system from Suse-7.0 with gs-5.50 to first Suse-7.3
> and later to Debian stable/testing, we experienced lots of printing
> problems. Most of them could be solved by setting AFPL-gs >=8.10 as
> default, however there still the [***] problems
You need ESP Ghostscript
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=18073

See: http://cups.org/software.php
Note:

CUPS 1.1.15 and higher no longer include the PostScript RIP filter, 
pstoraster, necessary for printing PostScript, PDF, text, or HP-GL/2 
files to non-PostScript printers. You must also install a version of 
Ghostscript with the "cups" raster driver (gdevcups.c) to print to 
non-PostScript printers.

The CUPS distribution includes the necessary files to add to a standard 
Ghostscript source distribution, or you can download the current ESP 
Ghostscript distribution.