Well, not always, the technology will over come you: Have you got a usb printer (this helps - parrellel port printers are troublesome because the parellel port is troublesome I guess) have you got cups (anything else is dire dire dire) kde - use the control panel or gnome - gnome-cups-manager. They do a much better job at sorting things out that cups' own front end and way better than the magic word dicking around of the text iinterface. have you gone gimp-print?
Thank you for grab-bag of tips, anonymous commenteer.
Parallel, Cups, and I avoid gimp-print because it hates my printer (I guess? it breaks everything, anyway).
Gnome-cups-manager might come in handy, didn't know about that one and gnome config tools are normally good, unlike the majority of other gnome apps.
I should have been more specific to start with though - printing stuff in general works... But I have never been able to print multiple pages on one sheet in an automatic fashion. Which is annoying, and primitive. *shakes fist at linux printing gods*
I challenge you to configure a Brother HL1230 to print pdfs 4 pages to a sheet :P
I know you are teasing fanboys of all colours, but Windows actually does printing very well, better than OSX or Linux. (Can I troll an OSX user? Probably not ;)
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Well, not always, the technology will over come you:
Have you got a usb printer (this helps - parrellel port printers are troublesome because the parellel port is troublesome I guess)
have you got cups (anything else is dire dire dire)
kde - use the control panel or gnome - gnome-cups-manager. They do a much better job at sorting things out that cups' own front end and way better than the magic word dicking around of the text iinterface.
have you gone gimp-print?
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CUPS_Setup#Alternative_CUPS_Interfaces
looks a good place to start
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Parallel, Cups, and I avoid gimp-print because it hates my printer (I guess? it breaks everything, anyway).
Gnome-cups-manager might come in handy, didn't know about that one and gnome config tools are normally good, unlike the majority of other gnome apps.
I should have been more specific to start with though - printing stuff in general works... But I have never been able to print multiple pages on one sheet in an automatic fashion. Which is annoying, and primitive. *shakes fist at linux printing gods*
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Of course, in actual fact, everything that Windows prints out is wrong and everything that is or is not printed out in Linux is correct ;)
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I know you are teasing fanboys of all colours, but Windows actually does printing very well, better than OSX or Linux. (Can I troll an OSX user? Probably not ;)
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:)
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