On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 12:37:16PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Imagine my surprise when the espon menu showed me only about 10 > potential drivers, none of which seem to be capable of driving my C82. Choose 'Printing' from the Desktop->Administration menu. The current Fedora Core printing administration program generates PPDs for printers on demand from the foomatic database, so you need to use that program (system-config-printer) to set up printers from foomatic. > Comment: On this FC2 box, I removed foomatic years ago, reconfigured and > rebuilt cups to use the gimp-print drivers, and brought my C82's output > up to the equivalent of that of a chemical darkroom, something I also > have no little experience with over the last 60 years. Do I have to > similarly "break" the FC5 install by doing it again just to make it > work, or is this a known issue with a fix readily available? Depending on how much tweaking you need to do, quite possibly. :-( Issues like this with the current Fedora Core printing system are known about, and work is underway to make things better. Tim. */
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