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Printing Trends in Linux (O'ReillyNet)
Printing Trends in Linux (O'ReillyNet)
Posted Sep 21, 2007 4:16 UTC (Fri) by jwb (subscriber, #15467)In reply to: Printing Trends in Linux (O'ReillyNet) by gtaylor6
Parent article: Printing Trends in Linux (O'ReillyNet)
I'm not trying to be simplistic and require everybody to have a postscript rip in their printer. Indeed, postscript may not even expose the best features of the print engine. I only expect my printers to have some kind of open, documented control language. I plug my Lexmark postscript printer into my Linux machine and it works flawlessly. I plug my Epson CX5400 into my Linux machine and it works perfectly. The latter is, by the way, not true with Windows. So I guess you'll have to excuse me if I'm not seeing the big emergency that requires us to adopt an infrastructure for the distribution of binary print drivers. As far as I can tell, getting a printer that works with the existing infrastructure is a matter of smart shopping.
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