[cups.general] can I use CUPS without ghostscript?

[Ambrose Li]

On 14/02/06, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 February 2006 07:36, Mangoo wrote:
> >Is it possible to use CUPS without ghostscript?
> >
> >I'm trying to set up a printing system on an embedded device, so I
> > have limited RAM and space.
>
> I don't believe so, at least not with moderm, mostly GDI printers.  It
> might be possible to print to an old dot matrix or daisy wheel with the
> -o raw option though.  But this would not do any graphics at all on the
> daisy, and very limited on the dmp.  The dmp will be higher maintainace
> over time and there are a few of those still available, I saw an Oki
> 321 at Office Max the other day, brand new.  It can do straight text,
> and emulate either a limited set of escp2 or IBM ProPrinter modes.
> Parport drive normally, there may still be serial and ethernet cards
> available for it.  Daisy stuff I haven't seen in ages although I have a
> couple of very old ones.  Slow, expensive ribbons are its achilles
> heels.  Fastest one ever, at 40 cps, was a Xerox 1650-ro, I have one
> but it was several thousand when it was new in the 70's, I got it used.
> Its a hockey puck, and I think it will still work today if I pull it
> out of the shed.
>
> Ghostscript and enscript are pretty much parts of the cups system,
> helping to convert it into a universal, gobbles up anything, printing
> system.
>
> If possible, could you setup a seperate printer server machine on a
> network and use that?  But the tcp stack for the network is also going
> to eat into resources, so depending on what you've got, that might not
> be doable either.
>
> --
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