Recommend a Linux-compatible Laser printer

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Mon Nov 24 15:12:08 UTC 2008


On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 10:21:14AM -0500, Howard Gibson wrote:
> Salman,
> 
>    The cheap printers all are ink-jet.

There are cheap lasers too.  Like inkjets they tend to require all
processing to be done by the host.

>    I was under the impression that laser printers were PostScript.  Any PostScript printer is Linux compatible to the extent that you do not need GhostScript.  

Only the good laser printers have postscript.  Most do not.

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