buying a printer

[Steve]

On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:17:04 -0000, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> chris wrote:
>> On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 13:39 -0600, Preston Hagar wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>                Any new printer will work with Linux now. So find what
>>>         you
>>>         can afford and if what you buy is new it will work.
>>>
>>>
>>>         73 Karl
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>         --
>>>
>>>                Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
>>>                Linux User
>>>                #450462   http://counter.li.org.
>>>                 Key ID = 3951B48D
>>>
>>>
>> Absolute nonsense
>>
>>
>>
>>
> 	Not so. The new printers now all have an agreed on format
> that the Linux printer driver provides. You are just out of touch.
>
> 73 Karl
>
Could you point me to information on this 'agreed format'

-- 
Steve