old messages on printing

Kurt Wall kwall
Fri Feb 9 18:11:50 PST 2007


On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 08:01:45PM -0700, Collins Richey wrote:
> On 2/8/07, Man-wai CHANG <mwchang at i-cable.com> wrote:
> > I have been keeping nearly 1200 message about printing, mostly about
> > printer driver and the old way of printing. Should I delete them now
> > that Cups and Gimp-print have caught up?
> >
> 
> Yeah, with CUPS[YS] all you need are these instructions
> 
> 1. Install CUPS
> 2. Try to print
> 3. If it fails, wait for the next equally untested dot release and go
> back to step 1.
> 4. Within 3-4 dot releases, you'll have a workable system that will
> stop working when the next dot release appears.

I'm guessing you don't care for CUPS?

Kurt
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