[ale] printing

[Jim Kinney]

Foomatic! That's the extra printers package I was trying to remember. Not
gutenprint. foomatic is a giant collection of printers and specs for cups.

On Sep 10, 2016 5:13 PM, "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> You are quite correct! I now recall only installing it for use with gimp
> work in the past.
>
> On Sep 10, 2016 3:59 PM, "Solomon Peachy" <pizza at shaftnet.org> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 02:55:56PM -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> > Some benefit from the gutenprint tool to get max resolutions and paper
>> use.
>>
>> That's not quite right -- Gutenprint is all about high quality image
>> printing, and only supports B&W on PCL-enabled printers.
>>
>> Alas, the PCL code hasn't seen any love in quite some time now.
>>
>> (And now, back to my quiet afternoon attempting to reverse-engineer
>>  a high-end Mitsubishi dyesub photo printer...)
>>
>>  - Solomon
>> --
>> Solomon Peachy                         pizza at shaftnet dot org
>> Delray Beach, FL                          ^^ (email/xmpp) ^^
>> Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
>>
>
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