Hello, On Jan 27 14:33 Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC) wrote (shortened):
Hardware, specifically printers, include a list of operating systems which the product is known to work. For example purposes: Windows and Mac OS X are supported and no mention is made of Linux or UNIX.
Buy a PostScript printer because this works independent form the operating system or buy at least a printer which supports PCL5e. For basic information see http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Purchasing_a_Printer_and_Compatibility and http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/Database/SuggestedPrinters For details see http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Information_for_Printer_Manufacturers_Regarding_L... By the way 1: If you like to print, scan, and copy regardles of the operating system even via network, think about a solid all-in-one printer/scanner/copier device with a built-in (color) PostScript level 3 printer. Normally one can scan directly on such a big and fat network-printer/scanner/copier and specify scan resolution and image file format (e.g. PDF) and all the other scanning options directly at the device and in particular one can specify an e-mail address to which the device will send the scanned images so that one will receive them as mail attachment according to what was specified as image file format. This way of operating is much more convenient for the user because when you would use a SANE (scanning software for Linux) driver, you would have to specify all the scanning parameters on your workstation by using a SANE user-frontend. But your workstation is normally far away from the network scanner so that you would have to place a sheet in the network scanner and post a big red note on the network scanner that you are currently using it for scanning so that others know what is going on and don't remove your sheet, then walk back to your workstation to specify the scanning parameters and start the scan and finally you would have to walk again to the network scanner to fetch your sheet and remove your note and walk back to your workstation. Of course this way of operating is much better for the physical health of the company staff ;-) By the way 2: Of course solid PostScript printers are expensive but there are models which are really worth the money (which does not mean that any PostScript printer is worth its money). I think that regardless how you decide, you have to pay the matching "price" either way. Either you pay once for a solid PostScript printer and never again care about which operating system in which version may support it or not, or you buy a cheap printer and then you must care again and again which operating system in which version supports it with which driver in which version to which extent. If your time costs (almost) nothing, buy a cheap printer ;-) Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5 Mail: jsmeix@suse.de 90409 Nuernberg, Germany WWW: http://www.suse.de/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org