FC5 vs cups vs Epson C82 printer

[Tim Waugh]

On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 12:37:16PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:

> Imagine my surprise when the espon menu showed me only about 10 
> potential drivers, none of which seem to be capable of driving my C82.

Choose 'Printing' from the Desktop->Administration menu.  The current
Fedora Core printing administration program generates PPDs for
printers on demand from the foomatic database, so you need to use that
program (system-config-printer) to set up printers from foomatic.

> Comment: On this FC2 box, I removed foomatic years ago, reconfigured and 
> rebuilt cups to use the gimp-print drivers, and brought my C82's output 
> up to the equivalent of that of a chemical darkroom, something I also 
> have no little experience with over the last 60 years.  Do I have to 
> similarly "break" the FC5 install by doing it again just to make it 
> work, or is this a known issue with a fix readily available?

Depending on how much tweaking you need to do, quite possibly. :-(

Issues like this with the current Fedora Core printing system are
known about, and work is underway to make things better.

Tim.
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