Re: Using more than one driver for a laser printer?

From: Adam Funk (a24061_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 11/07/04

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    On Friday 05 November 2004 14:30, Rich Rudnick wrote:

    > "You do not need Magicfilter for CUPS. CUPS has its own filtering
    > system and you can send text, PostScript, PDF, HP/GL-2, and many image
    > formats directly to a CUPS queue. See also the special options which
    > CUPS provides for text, HP/GL-2, and images
    > (http://localhost:631/sum.html, options dialogs of XPP, QtCUPS,
    > kprinter, and GTKlp)."
    >
    > <Plug> I've used all of the programs cited above at one time or the
    > other, and use gtklp daily. It provides access to all options on my
    > printers, and makes it trivial to create instances (templates).
    > </Plug>

    I've removed package magicfilter, installed the second printer "ps"
    using the CUPS web interface, and symlinked /etc/printcap
    to /var/run/cups/printcap, and I'm getting one strange problem:
    "lpr -P ps foo.ps" works,
    "dvips -P ps foo.dvi" works,
    "a2ps install" works (using the Brother driver),
    but

    $ a2ps -P ps install
    [install (plain): 1 page on 1 ***]
    lp: unable to print file: client-error-bad-request
    [Total: 1 page on 1 ***] sent to the printer `ps'
    [8 lines wrapped]

    However I can use "a2ps -o foo.ps ; lpr -P ps foo.ps" to produce the
    output that the command above ought to produce. Any idea why "a2ps -P
    ps" doesn't work? 

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