Most inkjet printers do not use postscript. Ghostscript filters convert the
postscript output into the printer's native language before it is sent to
the printer. There are Windows specific printers, and I believe you are
correct that Lexmark makes some of them, but they also make several printers
that are infact supported, the one I have comes with a GTK gui control panel
and everything <G>.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Justin Keyes" <m9u35@yahoo.com>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2001 3:35 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] What is a good printer?
> I am probably wrong, but from my reading I understand that many Lexmark
> and other windows-only printers do NOT use postscript. Instead, they
> use a proprietary printing language that only works with Windows,
> because, in order to have cheaper printers, they make the system do the
> printer's work. An analogy would be the so-called WinModems, or
> software modems, that make the system do the modem's work, and slow
> down the system when they are used. I'm pretty sure that ghostscript
> is used to foot the bill of otherwise incompetent printers.
>
> --Justin Keyes
>
> --- Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 09:19:39AM -0800, Justin Keyes wrote:
> >
> > > Be careful with Lexmark. Most or all lexmarks require ghostscript,
> > > meaning they are windows-only printers. I couldn't get my lexmark
> > z23
> > > to work, and I couldn't find linux drivers for it....
> > >
> >
> > I'm not sure what this means. Many Linux printing implementations use
> > ghostscript as an intermediate layer, so I don't know how Lexmarks
> > requiring ghostscript means that they're Windows-only printers. Are
> > you
> > saying that Lexmarks are postscript printers? If so, that's the
> > native
> > printing language of Linux.
> >
> > Paul
>
>
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