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domokun

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Dec 21, 2003
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Santa Barbara
Perhaps i am simply lost... yep i am lost!

Can someone please describe to me the difference between:
1. CUPS - Common Unix Printing System
2. Gimp-print
3. Ghostscript
4. Foomatic

Is there a way to tell of these have been installed on your machine?

More importantly, are these programs supposed to make a pcl (non-postscript) printers work with os X(postscript only)?

If so am I supposed to us a postscript ppd file and one of the programs above translates the print file into pcl (non-postscript)?

Can some one direct me on how to install a generic pcl file for a Lanier LD328c printer which is pcl6?

Of if there is a better way then using a generic pcl file please advise.
 
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