[Epsonepl-users] Easiest installation and possible changes to printing system

[JAn A. <jan...@gm...>]

Hello,

first and foremost I have to say that this project is great! It really will
solve an annoying problem of a friend of mine, if I get it to work.

He is running a Suse 8.1 with ESP Ghostscript 7.05.3 According to all I've
read this gs version should be fine for the driver, right? He uses LPRNG and
is also sharing the printer through a raw printqueue with Windows Clients.

/etc/printcap looks like this:

lp:\
	:lp=/dev/lp0:\
	:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
	:lf=/var/spool/lpd/lp/log:\
	:af=/var/spool/lpd/lp/acct:\
	:la@:\
	:tr=:cl:sh:

Since I am quite a newbie to Linux (my friend is even newbier, so in his
eyes I'm an expert ;-) and hope for a quick installation at his house, I am now
wondering which would be the "foolproof" way to get the printer working.

Should I use LPD-O-MATIC from linuxprinting.org, or is your  GS-IJS Plugin
v0.2.2 more safe to install? Will any installation affect my raw printing
queue for windows? I'm really glad I got at least that one to work, so that I
don't want to mess with that... I guess there shouldn't be a problem, because I
print the files directly on /dev/lp0, right?
If it works, it will automatically print faxes received with hylafax on the
linux machine. I'll hope the tiff2ps and ps2epl conversion will work
reliably.

In a very quick attempt, I have tried to get the printer running on a Suse
8.0 with GS 6.53 and the same raw printing queue by compiling your plugin on
the machine, but the printer didn't do anything when sending the epl file to
him. The rpm from your page wouldn't install because of a failed gs-fonts
dependency. Suse doesn't offer a gs-fonts RPM but supplies a gs-fonts-std
instead. Don't know if that was the problem... Anyway, the problems with Suse 8.0
were just for the protocol because I have to get it running on Suse 8.1 now.

So if anybody has anserws to my questions or any other helpful comments for
an Suse 8.1 installation, I'd be very thankful!

Cheers,

Jan

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