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    help with foomatic and other printing stuff :(

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by maos, Mar 27, 2008.

  1. maos

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    hey guys. I'm trying to get my epson epl-6200L to work through a printserver with my macbook pro.

    a guy on the apple discussion board suggested the following:
    so for the epsonepl driver, i downloaded a platform independent source to compile, and i dl'ed and installed foomatic and ghostcript.

    now when i try to compile the epsonepl, i get this:
    I'm kind of really confused about the entire deal here. I'm not even sure how to get anything to work. For every other driver on openprinting.org, they are able to provide a PPD, but 'epsonepl', they say:

    and that

    so how do i get this thing to work?

    help would be greatly appreciated.
     
    maos, Mar 27, 2008
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