Re: HP Color LaserJet 3000n with Linux (Mandrake/Mandriva, Fedora)

Dances With Crows <danSPANceswithTRAPcrows@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
ITYM "some printers will speak generic PostScript or PCL". For various
reasons (features, general bloody-mindedness of hardware manufacturers),
most printers seem to require at least a PPD to work in a reasonable
way.

This PPD requirement is not a printer requirement but a CUPS requirement.
As far as the printer is concerned it will be OK to do something like

cat tiger.ps > /dev/lp0

No driver involved, no PPD file needed. Most printers will even accept a
command like:

cat file.txt > /dev/lp0

But the above might give staircase effects on most printers. However
PostScript is the native printing language supported by most printing
applications and it is easy to convert also text to PostScript with a2ps.

Talking of PPD files... When I installed Slackware 12 the default
installation wanted PPD files to make our networked xerox printers usable.
No such PPD files for our xerox printers were included with Slackware 12.
The most simple solution to this was to ditch CUPS and pick up lprng from
/pasture.

regards Henrik
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