I used to fight with such insanity constantly. 

	However since printers are frequently sold and shipped
with a basically undocumented interface, and more than half the time
these filter utilites are barely reverse engineered POS's I decided
long ago that fighting with them was counterprodocutive. easily 2/3 of
the time (depending on your printer model) they are unreliable at
best. 

	simple answer, postscript printers are cheap. find a printer that
speaks postscript and avoid all the nonsense.  I got one (LexMark
C510) a year and a half ago for $325 CDN that speaks postscript and
talks to my print spooler on ethernet, and most of my printer woes
went away. 


* Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> [2007-07-14 08:11]:
quoted text
> I'm wondering what the OBSD people generally use for print filtering.  I
> have an old IBM PC Graphics printer (dot-matrix) attached to my debian
> box but everyone there seems to use CUPS.  I could just as easily
> connect the printer to my OBSD box.
> 
> The last time I used this printer to print postscript was a few years
> ago.  It was connected to a debian box running LPRng but debian's gs
> did't have a driver that would work.  I ended up using foomatic and
> gs-esp with the ML 320 driver.
> 
> foomatic and cups seems like going overboard for something so simple.
> So what do OBSD people use?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Doug.
> 

-- 
#!/usr/bin/perl
if ((not 0 && not 1) !=  (! 0 && ! 1)) {
   print "Larry and Tom must smoke some really primo stuff...\n"; 
}