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Another print fix for gs, gimp-print issues UNIX
I just spent a few hours trying to figure out why nothing happened when trying to print. The only error message I had was in the CUPS error log:

E [19/Oct/2004:03:06:55 +0200] Started backend /usr/libexec/cups/backend/usb (PID 960) for job 41.

I found out that my print chain was, at some point, using gs (ghostscript), which had its path hardcoded in the script as:
/usrlibexec/cups/filter/pstoraster
The problem was that, after installing Fink and a brand new set of binaries in their own tree (in /sw/bin), I wrote a script to delete any duplicate (and probably old) stuff I had in /usr/local/bin. In this case, that was a bad idea! So everything went back to normal after a simple:
ln -s /sw/bin/gs /usr/local/bin/gs
For the interested ones, my printer is an HP PSC 1210 (All in One), and the drivers were from Gimp-Print -- HP software won't work on a UFS startup disk; I guess they relied on HFS's case insensivity, and messed up the case in some file names.
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Another print fix for gs, gimp-print issues
Authored by: ifjake on Oct 22, '04 12:54:41AM

i wish you weren't anonymous so i could contact you privately. but i was trying to network this same printer with no sucess whatsoever. any idea on how to get my mac to print on this printer hooked up to a Windows PC on local area subnet type thing (college thing) or vice versa, the PC printing to the printer hooked up to my mac?



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