[ale] lprng long shot

[John Heim]

Really? Lprng died? I hadn't heard that. Ricoh provides scripts to configure 
a printer in lprng but they're for Red Hat and/or suse. We use debian. But 
they don't support cups.

Gawd, what a mess.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 4:08 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] lprng long shot


> Ouch! lprng died a silent death several years ago. CUPS (with all it warts
> and glory) is the printing subsystem for *NIX now.
>
> Are you stuck with lprng or can you replace it with cups? There is a
> postscript driver for it cups.
> http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Ricoh/Ricoh-Aficio_MP_C4501
> That may get you moving on configuring with lprng
>
> I think lprng was an acronym of (l)ine (pr)inter (n)o (g)ood
>
> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 4:54 PM, John Heim <john at johnheim.net> wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to config a Ricoh  Aficio MP C4501  printer under lprng. I 
>> don't
>> suppose anybody has a ifhp config for that printer?
>>
>>      Failing that, does anyone know how to get on the lprng support list?
>> There is a link to a subscription address on the lprng home page but mail
>> to
>> that address bounces.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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