Printing Photos and turboprint

[Alan Jackson]

Well I hooked my new Canon S900 printer up - that was a minor trial.
It is a usb device, and I still don't quite grok usb. I finally realised
I needed to add in the usb printer kernel module. 

I purchased turboprint, a requirement for this printer.

Now I'm trying to actually print to it. I've had some success, but I can't
quite get it to do what I want. I have some very high res jpeg files I
want to print at 1200x1200 dpi. What is the preferred way to do this? When
I try to do it through gimp, it barfs - I suspect it uses up too much
memory or something trying to generate an absurdly large postscript file.

One side issue that drove me nuts - I discovered that the file command,
of all things, did not recognize jpeg files. I edited the 
/usr/share/misc/magic file to add the entries for jpeg, and that fixed
it, but I am still amazed that they weren't already there. I'm running
Caldera 3.1.1.

I can see that when I'm done, there may be an SxS come out of this.

I also discovered a new way to admin CUPS, point a browser at
http://localhost:631/. Pretty cool.

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