Re: Quick question on printers...

No drivers for Linux were supplied for the Olivetti and so at the
moment, if I need to print, I need to boot into windows.

Just one question.

Does the manufacturer even provide drivers for all the flavors of windows?
Win95, Memphis, Win98, WinME, WinNT, WinXP, Win2000, Longhorn, Vista
(I probably missed a few)

I would imagine that since it's wireless it should support some sort of
standard networking protocol (IPP)? Or at least PostScript.

I recently gave away a printer because it only had drivers for WindowsME
(Canon MPC 5000). IMO, more printers work in almost any linux distro than
do in any version of windows. Heck even my high end soundcard doesn't
work in Vista. But is utterly awesome in linux.

For win-printers you're probably out of luck. At least for the next
decade or more. Heck, I can't even find win drivers(95/98/ME) for my win
modems anymore. Even though they work fine under linux. And used to have
drivers that seemed to work for windows, when they were bought new. And
even had updated drivers for several years off the net.


http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting
( aka linuxprinting.org )

http://cups.org/

http://hplip.sourceforge.net/

http://hpoj.sourceforge.net/


http://www.openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Olivetti-Any_Way
(heh. THIS IS A PAPERWEIGHT.)

http://www.openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Olivetti-JP350S
Works... I guess I should also ask what model do you have?

http://www.openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Olivetti-JP450
Partially works...

http://www.openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Olivetti-JP470
Works...

http://www.openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Olivetti-PG_306
Works...

http://www.openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Olivetti-d-Copia_400_KX
Works...

HTH
.

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