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Use Postscript... (none / 0) (#8)
by Anonymous User on Tue May 13, 2003 at 01:22:01 PM PDT

I have a very unsympathic answer to the problem: Postscript.

Generic Postscript drivers can drive old and new Postscript printers alike.  Of course, it's nice when the vendor has a customized Postscript driver (e.g. to use special features, or higher resolution), but custom drivers are not required.

Some vendors charge a premium for Postscript, but avoiding the printer driver upgrade nightmare makes it cost effective.  Of course, it makes even more sense to purchase from vendors who do not charge a Postscript premium.

And those ancient Postscript printers work perfectly well from Linux too.

Of course, none of this currently applies to cheap ink jet printers, but it should.  I cannot understand why vendors saddle themselves with different drivers for every model, instead of developing to a simple, common, Postscript driver.



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