Re: [hfdb] Printer data/ "driver" formats

[Zenaan Harkness]

On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 12:19, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> > I've heard of linuxprinting.org (obviously), the foomatic drivers,
> > various driver projects (like lprng, cups, lpd), and the whole thing has
> > never seemed remotely approachable from an end-user point of view. Every
> > time I do (Debian) "apt-cache search printer|grep -i print", there are
> > so many things to choose from, that the task of researching even enough
> > to understand it all has lead me to continue with what I was doing
> > previously :(
> > 
> 
> It's a lot of stff together:
> 
> Driver
> 
>    low-level
> 
>       kernel, HPOJ, ...
> 
>     printer language
> 
>        HPIJS, Gimp-Print
> 
> Spooler/printing system
> 
>     CUPS, LPRng, PPR, PDQ, ...
> 
> PostScript/PDF renderer
> 
>     GhostScript
> 
> Integration of the driver in the spooler/printing system
> 
>     Foomatic
> 
> Printer hardware compatibility database
> 
>     Foomatic

Awesome! Thanks for that.

> > In particular, given Joe Shaw's recent email re: foomatic, a comparison
> > between foomatic and linuxprinting db.
> > 
> 
> More about how to use Foomatic:
> 
> http://www.linuxprinting.org/cups-doc.html
> http://www.linuxprinting.org/lpd-doc.html
> http://www.linuxprinting.org/ppr-doc.html
> http://www.linuxprinting.org/pdq-doc.html
> http://www.linuxprinting.org/ppd-doc.html
>     Instructions to set up print queues
> 
> http://www.linuxprinting.org/USAGE
>     USAGE file of the foomatic-db-engine package
> 
> http://www.linuxprinting.org/foomatic-filters/USAGE
>     USAGE file of the foomatic-filters package
> 
> More about how Foomatic works
> 
> http://www.linuxprinting.org/README
>     README file of the foomatic-db-engine package
> 
> http://www.linuxprinting.org/foomatic-filters/README
>     README file of the foomatic-filters package

I didn't even realise that foomatic and linuxprinting were like one and
the same thing!

Thanks heaps, and now I have even more reading to do :)

cheers
zen