Printing a Linux Nightmare

Posted Feb 27, 2004 5:23 UTC (Fri) by Webexcess (guest, #197)
In reply to: Printing a Linux Nightmare by shredwheat
Parent article: The Luxury of Ignorance: An Open-Source Horror Story (catb.org)

To be honest I'm on Debian, which doesn't directly come with printer tools. But I've already installed no end of foomatics and "gui helpers".
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For the love of all things, a simple HOWTO would be welcome, but nothing was available when I was searching a year or so ago.

A little more than a year ago I was driven up the wall by the same interface you and ESR are complaining about. I'm certainly not an expert, but when I finally got it working I channeled my anger into writing a howto for Printing with Debian and Windows. It avoids GUI tools and has worked for at least a couple of people.
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