What are some good, easty-to-use printing solutions for Solaris?
A writeup by Carl Ehorn, below, provides a good summary. It originally November 2001 appeared at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/26467 I don’t know if anyone has the same problems I did, but I recently went looking for a good printing solution that didn’t require that I roll my own using Ghostscript and a bunch of scripts. I’ve done that before, and it gets old fairly quickly. I have a HP Deskjet 1220C, which is a color wide-carriage printer with fairly high resolution capabilities. It can print at 600×600 DPI color in normal modes, and can support up to 2400×2400 DPI color with HP software. However, that software only works on Win machines, and I don’t really need that high a resolution in Solaris, as I do my graphics processing on Win machines anyway. My printer is hanging on an ethernet print-server box, which allows it to be shared by any machine on the network. This works very well, and has always worked in text modes from Solaris. But I was looking for a Post
