This will work with EVERY printer, this Tektronix driver is only for
spitting out coloured PostScript, the translation from PostScript to the
printer's own format is then done, as usual, by the CUPS RIP (Raster
Image Processor) or GhostScript.

So you can buy every printer well supported by CUPS/Mandrake 7.2. See

   http://www.linuxprinting.org/suggested.html

   Till


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> Thanks to Tills valiant extra efforts
> WP8 is now working for me with CUPS and
> LM 7.2.
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> It is very strange but a Techtronix Phaser 140
> was The Only Postscript enabled Printer driver
> which was also Color able play nice with WP8,
> LM 7.2 my HP 855C, (Also other printers, Epson
> etc, have had luck) and CUPS.
> 
> The printer was chosen from the many listings which
> WP8 has when one adds and configures a new printer.
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> Anyone else having other successes should let
> us know!
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> Of course nows the time to get a new printer
> so we shall see what happens next :)
> 
> William Bouterse
> Talkeetna
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