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