printers for UBUNTU?
Dotan Cohen
dotancohen at gmail.com
Wed Apr 1 10:21:07 UTC 2009
> At the risk of defending Lexmark - they're network printers are most
> certainly compatible as most of them do Postscript and IPP natively
> (along with many other standards, e.g. IBM mainframe stuff etc etc).
>
I don't think that I've ever seen a Lexmark network printer, and I was
in the market for a network printer recently. At least in my nation,
they are not marketed.
> I'm disappointed they stopped putting out CUPS ppd files for some
> reason and instead came up with their own 'custom' printing
> application - but it's most certainly linux compatible (albeit clunky
> and ugly)
>
> Me, I take the Win2K PPD files, dump 'em in CUPS and they work top drawer.
>
I've never even thought of that, nice! Can you get that off the driver
disk? How does that handle special functions, like dual-sided
printing?
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