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Printing Trends in Linux (O'ReillyNet)

Posted Sep 27, 2007 10:51 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: Printing Trends in Linux (O'ReillyNet) by rlk
Parent article: Printing Trends in Linux (O'ReillyNet)

I don't think PDF support in printers is a good idea either.

Anyways it's easy to translate PDF to postscript and visa versa. PDF is purposely designed that way.

And if anybody things printing in Linux is easy.. buy a cheap lexmark printer. (actually don't. it's a shitty printer that won't work with Linux unless you kill yourself trying first)

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Printing Trends in Linux (O'ReillyNet)

Posted Sep 27, 2007 12:37 UTC (Thu) by rlk (subscriber, #47505) [Link]

Actually, PDF has a number of advantages over PostScript. For one, it's really designed as a page description language; PDF files should render identically on all such printers. Also, it's a lot easier for malicious PostScript to lock up a printer. There are other people here who can speak to all of this more authoritatively than I can...

Lexmark printers and Linux

Posted Oct 2, 2007 11:09 UTC (Tue) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link]

Didn't I hear some time ago that Lexmark was a spinoff of IBM? Something to do with an antitrust suit or similar?

Ironic, really, seeing how IBM is a big supporter of Linux these days.

I convinced my dad (Windows-only user) to take my Canon S520 in exchange for his HP DeskJet 5150 right after I abandoned using Windows. He obliged, and I now have a printer that always Just Works™ with Linux and CUPS.

IMO setting up a graphics/video card is more difficult in Linux than setting up a printer.