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A full installation of Slackware already comes with Ghostscript, Ghostscript Fonts, CUPS, and foomatic-rip, so you'll only need to install pnm2ppa and the corresponding CUPS PPM driver for your printer. You can download the latest version of pnm2ppa from [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pnm2ppa/ their SourceForge page].
You'll need to change the Makefile so that the binaries are installed to the right place.
Old version of Makefile:
Makefile after necessary changes:
After this, compilation and installation should be pretty easy:
Now, you need the corresponding PPD file for your printer, which you can get from the [http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_driver.cgi?driver=pnm2ppa PPD-O-Matic page]. The CUPS configuration for your printer will require this file.
When it asks you for a driver, choose a manufacturer of "Generic" and the print model "MS Publisher Imagesetter." This will automatically convert the documents you print into a format readable by CUPS and the printer driver. After this, if everything's set up correctly, you should be able to print out a test page with the Windows client. The Windows versions I tried this on are XP Tablet PC Edition, XP Home, and 7 Enterprise, and they all were able to print out test pages successfully.
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