TurboPrint equivalent?

Crackington · 05-22-2014, 08:08 AM

Is there a free alternative for TurboPrint available?

MensaWater · 05-22-2014, 08:14 AM

CUPS is used for printing in Linux for the most part.

The question is WHICH printers do you need to print to and are their free drivers for them. The Turboprint blurb talks about having drivers for things that don't yet have free drivers. Unless you happen to have a strange printer or strange needs the drivers you can get to use with CUPS are probably good enough.

Crackington · 05-22-2014, 10:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MensaWater

CUPS is used for printing in Linux for the most part.

The question is WHICH printers do you need to print to and are their free drivers for them. The Turboprint blurb talks about having drivers for things that don't yet have free drivers. Unless you happen to have a strange printer or strange needs the drivers you can get to use with CUPS are probably good enough.

Tried using the free drivers but I find it impossible to change from colour to monochrom or Greyscale, see http://forums.techguy.org/linux-unix...olor-mode.html

MensaWater · 05-22-2014, 12:43 PM

Did you do a search for:
changing color greyscale in cups

On doing that I find this post that seems to show how to do it (but of course doesn't mean it works for your specific printer):
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=121767

If you've tried that already, doing a web search for cups and your printer name/model might reveal information (even if it is information saying it isn't possible that would be helpful).