On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 09:24:06AM -0600, Bob Beck wrote: > I used to fight with such insanity constantly. > > However since printers are frequently sold and shipped > with a basically undocumented interface, and more than half the time > these filter utilites are barely reverse engineered POS's I decided
well, HP itself released hpijs under a BSD license. Epson is giving documentation and printers-on-loan to the gutenprint project. I'm pretty sure Cannon is giving documentation to gutenprint developers too. > long ago that fighting with them was counterprodocutive. easily 2/3 of > the time (depending on your printer model) they are unreliable at > best. well, just because people are getting docs doesn't mean they are writing good code :( > simple answer, postscript printers are cheap. find a printer that > speaks postscript and avoid all the nonsense. I got one (LexMark > C510) a year and a half ago for $325 CDN that speaks postscript and > talks to my print spooler on ethernet, and most of my printer woes > went away. that's what I already wrote, in not so many words ... plus these printers are probably cheaper than cheap ink-jets in the long run, considering ink replacement costs and the lifespan of the printer itself. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
