On Wednesday 09 March 2005 16:06, Greg Troxel wrote:
> It seems odd that you needed to install foomatic-rip.  This seems to
> be for use in 'direct printing', and CUPS seems to have foomatic glue
> already.  I can print to an Epson Stylus Photo 1200 without having
> installed this.  There is bin/foomatic-gswrapper, which is in the
> foomatic-gswrapper pkg, required by cupsomatic.

Me too I needed to manually install foomatic-rip from linuxprinting.org in 
order to make my deskjet work. I think there could be more automation in the 
process...

> I haven't figure out slpd.  But CUPS will work fine locally without
> it, and also using cups-proprietary browsing for remote printers.

slpd on my machine segfaults when starting, CUPS anyway works well...