It is my pleasant fantasy that all I have to do is buy a postscript printer and all my Suse 8.8/Linux printing problems wil totally disappear. Can anyone comment on this train of thought? It would seem not unreasonable but I just don't know. Scott
On Monday 27 May 2002 21:36, J. Scott Thayer, M.D. wrote:
It is my pleasant fantasy that all I have to do is buy a postscript printer and all my Suse 8.8/Linux printing problems wil totally disappear. Can anyone comment on this train of thought? It would seem not unreasonable but I just don't know. Scott =======================
Couldn't you also just purchase a postscript cartridge for your IIP? Probably be cheaper than another printer, but those HP postscript compatible ink jets are pretty nice too. I guess it would give you a good excuse to update at least. ;o) Patrick -- --- KMail v1.4 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.0 --- Registered Linux User #225206 Magic Page Products -- Amiga-SuSE-PC Sales & Service URL: http://home.sprintmail.com/~tracerb
Actually, I HAVE the cartridge and it works after a fashion. Imagine though the performance of a late 1980's technology? Need I say more? Scott
It is my pleasant fantasy that all I have to do is buy a postscript printer and all my Suse 8.8/Linux printing problems wil totally disappear. =======================
Couldn't you also just purchase a postscript cartridge for your IIP? Probably be cheaper than another printer, but those HP postscript compatible ink jets are pretty nice too. I guess it would give you a good excuse to update at least. ;o)
Patrick
Oh, and I forgot to mention that it only understands Postscript Level 1.
Actually, I HAVE the cartridge and it works after a fashion. Imagine though the performance of a late 1980's technology? Need I say more? Scott
It is my pleasant fantasy that all I have to do is buy a postscript printer and all my Suse 8.8/Linux printing problems wil totally disappear.
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Couldn't you also just purchase a postscript cartridge for your IIP? Probably be cheaper than another printer, but those HP postscript compatible ink jets are pretty nice too. I guess it would give you a good excuse to update at least. ;o)
Patrick
I have probably already erased the original message (which I don't remember reading) from J. Scott Thayer. However, I have a postscript module for an HP IIP or IIIP printer, and if I can have the original writer's name and address, it is his for $5 or postage, which- ever is more. --doug On Monday 27 May 2002 21:45, Patrick wrote:
On Monday 27 May 2002 21:36, J. Scott Thayer, M.D. wrote:
It is my pleasant fantasy that all I have to do is buy a postscript printer and all my Suse 8.8/Linux printing problems wil totally disappear. Can anyone comment on this train of thought? It would seem not unreasonable but I just don't know. Scott
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Couldn't you also just purchase a postscript cartridge for your IIP? Probably be cheaper than another printer, but those HP postscript compatible ink jets are pretty nice too. I guess it would give you a good excuse to update at least. ;o)
Patrick
On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 19:36, J. Scott Thayer, M.D. wrote:
It is my pleasant fantasy that all I have to do is buy a postscript printer and all my Suse 8.8/Linux printing problems wil totally disappear. Can anyone comment on this train of thought? It would seem not unreasonable but I just don't know. Scott
Worked for me. A couple of years ago I bought a Lexmark E312 primarily cause it had drivers (*.rpm) plus it included postscript. Initially I used the *.rpm and then on the next upgrade I was in a hurry and just used Yast to set a generic postscript printer driver. The printer works fine. The generic driver is not as pretty or "feature rich", but it works and has enough settings for a mono colour laser printer. All the applications see and print to the printer without problems (except for Corel WPO for linux). Laser printers with postscript capabilities are quite inexpensive these days. If you compare the cost to print 5,000 pages in a year using a laser printer with one toner cartridge vs an inkjet with 5 to 10 cartridges a year, then a laser is the same cost as an inkjet after a year of use. -- Ralph Sanford - If your government does not trust you, rsanford@telusplanet.net - should you trust your government? DH/DSS Key - 0x7A1BEA01
I bought an HP 2200D a year ago. It does PostScript without prompting, and SuSE is very happy with it. All I have to do is 'print" and it does. --doug On Monday 27 May 2002 22:36, Ralph Sanford wrote:
On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 19:36, J. Scott Thayer, M.D. wrote:
It is my pleasant fantasy that all I have to do is buy a postscript printer and all my Suse 8.8/Linux printing problems wil totally disappear. Can anyone comment on this train of thought? It would seem not unreasonable but I just don't know. Scott
Worked for me. A couple of years ago I bought a Lexmark E312 primarily cause it had drivers (*.rpm) plus it included postscript. Initially I used the *.rpm and then on the next upgrade I was in a hurry and just used Yast to set a generic postscript printer driver. The printer works fine. The generic driver is not as pretty or "feature rich", but it works and has enough settings for a mono colour laser printer. All the applications see and print to the printer without problems (except for Corel WPO for linux).
Laser printers with postscript capabilities are quite inexpensive these days. If you compare the cost to print 5,000 pages in a year using a laser printer with one toner cartridge vs an inkjet with 5 to 10 cartridges a year, then a laser is the same cost as an inkjet after a year of use.
OK We all seem annoyed in various ways with printers in linux and the consensus is that if we have a postscript printer, all is well. I have an HP Laserjet 4L and it was auto detected and boom, it works great..... So some of you may want to search for one of these on ebay, as they can sometimes be gotten for $150 and then buy a new cartridge. So, if we want color, that is the problem, then eh? So, how much is a laser color postscript printer, or is there a NATIVE color postscript printer of another type, such as a inkjet color postscript printer? How much were they, are they, and how fast are they coming down in price...? Forrest On Tue, 28 May 2002 20:06:33 -0400, a large badger frolicked about on your keyboard, and out came:
I bought an HP 2200D a year ago. It does PostScript without prompting, and SuSE is very happy with it. All I have to do is 'print" and it does. --doug
On Monday 27 May 2002 22:36, Ralph Sanford wrote:
On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 19:36, J. Scott Thayer, M.D. wrote:
It is my pleasant fantasy that all I have to do is buy a postscript printer and all my Suse 8.8/Linux printing problems wil totally disappear. Can anyone comment on this train of thought? It would seem not unreasonable but I just don't know. Scott
Worked for me. A couple of years ago I bought a Lexmark E312 primarily cause it had drivers (*.rpm) plus it included postscript. Initially I used the *.rpm and then on the next upgrade I was in a hurry and just used Yast to set a generic postscript printer driver. The printer works fine. The generic driver is not as pretty or "feature rich", but it works and has enough settings for a mono colour laser printer. All the applications see and print to the printer without problems (except for Corel WPO for linux).
Laser printers with postscript capabilities are quite inexpensive these days. If you compare the cost to print 5,000 pages in a year using a laser printer with one toner cartridge vs an inkjet with 5 to 10 cartridges a year, then a laser is the same cost as an inkjet after a year of use.
On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 09:36:19PM -0400, J. Scott Thayer, M.D. wrote:
It is my pleasant fantasy that all I have to do is buy a postscript printer and all my Suse 8.8/Linux printing problems wil totally disappear. Can anyone comment on this train of thought? It would seem not unreasonable but I just don't know. Scott
I bought a Lexmark E322 laser printer with that precise hope, and it worked out fine. I no longer have the hit or miss printing that I did with my HP PCL printer. It made a huge difference in quality for me. Of course, it doesn't solve the problem of multiple major printing systems in linux, inconsistent printing interfaces, etc. but that's a software problem. Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ Got spam? Get spastic http://spastic.sourceforge.net
On Monday 27 May 2002 21:36, Scott wrote:
It is my pleasant fantasy that all I have to do is buy a postscript printer and all my Suse 8.8/Linux printing problems wil totally disappear. Can anyone comment on this train of thought? It would seem not unreasonable but I just don't know.
I have two postscript inkjets, a Lexmark Optra Color 40 and a Xerox C20, and they are a pleasure to use with Linux. Just choose Postscript Level 2 as the printer driver, and receive perfect results immediately and all the time. It's really too bad more inkjets don't come with Postscript. *************************************************** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson@earthlink.net ***************************************************
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