many years ago- I had to purchase printers for UNIX [solaris] network. Back then- the company I worked for kept everything PostScript. Made it feasible on the UNIX side- on the windows side it also kept everything consistent. At the time the /cheap/ printer was an HP2100TN. You paid extra for the Post Script features and you paid extra for the network printserver.
couple years ago- I bought the next generation in that line for home. HP2300. It appears that HP has assimilated [or emulates] PostScript as part of their newer PCL [Printer Control Language]. I first saw this on one of the really cheap low end [hp1300] printers. You could feed in raw PS code and it knew what to do. If you have PostScript language available- you can set the printer up with a raw driver. Also makes it nice on the windows side. After installing the windows driver- search for the .ppd [PostScript Printer Description] file. With this- you can download the generic Adobe driver. The driver will ask you for the ppd file [as do some of the newer linux drivers and programs]. overall- the newer HP printers should be good- just look for PostScript and everything should work well. Justin Gedge On 9/10/07, Joseph Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I hate to go off topic by asking about something Linux related, but I > need some opinions, preferably on Linux-friendly printers. Can anyone > direct me to a good Linux-friendly printer that is currently on the > market? I'm not looking for much. At the moment, I only have the > occasional file that I need to print out (mostly airline boarding > passes for work), but I'm sure that if I brought a printer home, my > wife would be interested in printing out photos. > > Does anyone have any current printers that they have found to work > reasonably well in recent Linux distros? > > -- > Joseph > http://blog.josephhall.com/ > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
