October 2000
Intermediate to advanced
1152 pages
26h 41m
English
Printer filters work by defining and inserting printer definitions into your /etc/printcap file. Embedded in each printer description is a pointer (pathname) to a script or program containing the filter to be run before output to the printer. This section introduces several ancillary printer filter systems you can try with Red Hat Linux.
Even if you're spoiled by the printtool program, you will at times need to use other programs or scripts to help set up or manage printing. If you can't or don't want to run X, but want to easily install printing services for HP or PostScript printers, one great solution is the printing filter package called Apsfilter, by Andreas Klemm and Thomas Bueschgens. ...
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