[cups.general] PDFs do not Print

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 08 March 2007, adfas asd wrote:
>Thank you for that comprehensive response Gene.
>
>Yes I was earlier able to print when I did the pdftops
>conversion, but not any more.  For some reason I can
>no longer print to the color printer with the PS
>driver, and I do not have time to fsck with it.  I
>must make a living, rather than bit-twiddling with the
>ever-busted Cups. (9 years of headaches)
>
I have had some problems, but nothing on that scale ever.

Compared to all the other *nix printing systems, cups has been a piece of 
cake to keep it working and I've been using it since the very early 1.0.x 
versions.

>I can print everything to the other office printer,
>albeit in black-and-white, and I am using the PCL
>driver for that.  I notice that the color printer also
>accepts PCL, so maybe if I can find a PCL driver for
>the Gestetner DSc38u, I can survive.

What does this Gestetner DSc38u do that couldn't be done with a $90 Epson 
which would of course be slower at some quality settings.

-- 
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