:: Re: [DNG] Printing -- now works.
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Lähettäjä: Hendrik Boom
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Aihe: Re: [DNG] Printing -- now works.
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 05:43:10PM +0100, Rainer Weikusat wrote:
> Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???> writes:
>
> [Brother printer]
>
> > I did manage to get the printer going. I should have mentionned long
> > ago what the final problem was.
> >
> > It turns out I was trying to print a pdf to a postscript printer. I
> > thought that pdf was a specialized form of postscript, the way inkscape
> > files are a specialized form of svg. Turns out that was completely
> > wrong.
>
> This suggests that something is wrong with the driver/ input filter
> setup. That's supposed to convert the input file to something the
> printer understands. I can print PostScript, PDF and a number of kinds
> of files just fine.


I'm using the driver from Brother, and lpr from lprng. I found the
lprng-doc package. I suppose the next thing is to read it,

I am not using CUPS.

-- hendrik