[KLUG Members] Problems: CUPS, Kanji email

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>>>Hope these are not FAQ that I've missed but here they are:
>>>1. I'm trying to install CUPS on my BS7.2 system to allow me
>>>to do some decent color printing on my HP DJ670C.  I've installed
>>>CUPS and tried to install gimp-print which would give me the
>>>driver I want as I understand it, but no joy.  I cannot print
>>>at all now..... grrrr
>>I don't think there is any direct relation to GIMP print and CUPS.  One
>>is a spooler engine, the other is a driver suite.
>>There is some odd command used in RedHat to switch spoolers,  but off
>>hand I don't recall what it is. I'll see if I can dig it up.
>It would seem so but the CUPS documentation implies that there are
>drivers in both but the drivers in the GIMP-print package is better for most
>printers.

Yes,  I use LPRng and the gimp-print drivers.  gimp-print should be installed by
default if you clicked printer-support on the installed.  And the drivers should
be available via the print setup wizard.  For mor info see the "Printing and The
Penguin" presentation I did awhile back.

>>>Any suggestions from all those veterans out there?
>>Hmmm.  Japanese characters appear all the time in my Galeon under GNOME,
>>and I didn't do anything.  Make sure you have the japanese fonts
>>installed,  I don't think they are included with BS-Ware if thats what
>>your using.
>It appears that my Netscape automatically recognizes Kanji, has the font
>set installed somewhere and renders it automatically.  I discovered this
>when I read of this Netscape feature when searching the web on the topic and
>tested it on the site asahi.com where the Kanji looks good.  Earlier I had
>brought up, with Mozilla, a Japanese site discussing kanji fonts in which the
>kanji was nonsense.   Does Mozilla have a different font set available than
>Netscape?  Same browser engine, right?

Mozilla = Netscape 6.x, yes.  Netscape 4.x is a different beast entirely,  it
uses the system (X) fonts,  but munges some stuff.