Re: Cups broken and my stomach is upset - Anger Management in Action Danger! Danger! Will Robinson!

On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 11:14:21AM +1030, Tim wrote:
On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 12:51 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
Printers that accept postscript natively have always made life easier
on Unix-like system where everything else requires output
transformations.

First time I tried to get printing working on Linux, I rapidly came to
that conclusion. However, trawling through all the local computer
vendors, none had any that did, and few knew anything about it. They
were all Windows people - you install your XP drivers and it prints...

Even when you look on-line, it can be hard to find a decent printer (one
that you can afford, or even just manage to get supplied to where you
are). They might list Linux compatibility, in some vague manner.
Likewise, they might mention Postscript, again in a vague manner. Some
don't give any clues about what printing language they use, others are
misleading. I've got a couple of laser printers (and old and dependable
HP LaserJet 4L, and an old and unreliable Kyocera FS-400), which I've
seen reports that at least one of can handle Postscript, directly, and
others that say they don't.

Yeah, printing can be a REAL pain in the tush.

For the last several years I've been using an old Lexmark Optra color 40,
an inkjet with builtin postscript. it had its idiotsyncracies,... it
was slow to print complex jobs (slow rendering engine, I assume), ink
was incredibly pricey (typical of all inkjets I believe), and no matter
what I did, how many pins I stuck in the toy doll or how many prayers
I uttered, it simply WOULD NOT print on envelopes, despite what the
manual said.

It finally got to where it wouldn't feed paper properly anymore, so armed
with a huge wad of Amazon gift certificates this recent Christmas,
I looked thru lists of usable low-priced laser printers (isn't
Linuxprinting.org wonderful?) that were also available on Amazon. I
settled on a Brother HL2070N which was incredibly cheap, even with free
shipping, and Brother makes linux drivers available as open source so I
figured what the heck. I got it, plugged it in, turned it on, plugged in a
USB cable and voila: a dialog asking if I'd like to configure it. nothing
could be easier, it "just works". And it prints envelopes, too! :)

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