[102378] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Laser printer suggestion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vidiot)
Wed Dec 2 17:12:15 1998
From: Vidiot <brown@ftms.COM>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 16:11:32 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <199812022155.NAA07370@glacier.jpl.nasa.gov> from "Rick Forrester" at Dec 2, 98 01:55:30 pm
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>Based on experience, many postscript printers work fine with Windoze.
>I've got a Panasonic KXP5510 postscript printer; the drivers were
>included in MS95/8 & all I had to do was select & go. Works great
>under Linux, of course. 8^)
Yes, if you load the simple Apple LaserWriterII support, it will work for
pretty much any PostScript printer.
Many of the new PostScript printers are NOT included, because they came out
after 95 was released, so you have to load the drivers that comes with the
printer. Those drivers know the features of the printer, i.e., paper size
it can handle, kind of trays and tray selections, non-printing area, etc.
The thing I was trying to point out is that with MicroSh!t Windoze, you HAVE
to load some kind of driver for the printer, even if it is the simple
generic PostScript printer, otherwise Windoze won't be able to print to it.
You don't have to do that with Unix. Plug and Go :-)
MB
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