-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2008-09-17 at 22:42 -0400, Andrew Joakimsen wrote:
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <> wrote:
IIRC, some printer manufacturers do (or did) brand their boxes with an indication that they supported Linux. I want to say Lexmark did that, but I may be misremembering. I do remember a period of time when I was writing reviews that Lexmark was being very aggressive about getting reviews of its printers with Linux.
Lexmark has two lines of product 1) cheap crap (winprinters) and 2) serious business-class printers. For the most part the latter have excellent Linux support due to generally being PostScript printers. Feed CUPS the PPD from the Windows drivers and everything (including extra trays, duplexer, etc) will work fine. I think Lexmark has recently released a Linux filter driver for some of these printers, but I don't see the point in even trying that out when the 20kb PPD works just fine.
The thing is that finding the PPD from windows may not be so easy. In my case (HP printer) I could not find it in the CD, most files are compressed as CAB or are executables. It probably needs installing the printer in windows first to find out :-( I have it printing prety well, but I wasn't fully sure before I bought it. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkjU2h8ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9Xq3QCcDVdoh+MgDITJ7vjYR1qNDiSi kFQAn3YNKsFFQG2Ys7Xx2m1brRnrUZhK =z57h -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org