printing with gimp

Tim Waugh twaugh at redhat.com
Wed Jan 28 13:12:32 UTC 2004


On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 08:54:26AM -0600, Fritz Whittington wrote:

> A long time ago, under lp printing, you could set up different
> logical printers that all pointed to the same physical printer, but
> with different options set for each one.  I presume you can do the
> same under CUPS, but haven't tried.  Linux has no problem printing
> to the printers on the Windows boxes with Samba, but it was such a
> hassle to go the other way that I no longer have any local printers
> on the Linux box.

Yes -- however, 'lp -oraw ...' bypasses any filtration regardless of
the queue settings.  Normally this is useful in the case of GIMP
printing -- the exception is when you *want* the default filtering
(i.e. when you don't want to use the GIMP plug-in's own rasterizer).

Tim.
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