Eben King wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Paul M Foster wrote:
>
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>
> See, that might be the catch. How do I find out whether this printer is
> supported, or is one of those proprietary jobbies? (I had no hand in
> picking it out...) I just don't want to spend 6 hours trying to make it
> work, only to find a post from some guy that says "oh, the i*5*60?
> Piece of trash. Doesn't work.".
>
Check http://www.linuxprinting.org . They have a table that indicates
whether a printer is fully supported, almost-supported, or a
paperweight. I believe you can also find PPDs there. Also remember that
CUPS is just a queue manager. You still have to have ghostscript or
foomatic to translate the byte stream into what the printer can understand.
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> OK, that means that the Linux box won't make the print job look
> different than they're used to, as it won't have any hand in the
> processing, except to hand the data off, right?
>
As far as I know, yes.
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