On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 09:34 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 16:20 +1030, Tim wrote: > > Tim: > > >> ....... 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. > > > > linuxmaillists@xxxxxxxxxxx: > > > I have a HP LaserJet 5L that is about 15 years old and it > > > works very well with Linux. It even does a good job with > > > print jobs sent to it through my Linux box from a winblows > > > box that my wife uses over a wireless connection. > > > > Oh, my 4L works fine, too. Just that it can't (or won't) do Postscript, > > unlike what something that suggested it could. I've even managed to > > share it to Windows 2000 (using HTTP rather than Samba), but Windows was > > painful about that at times. > > > > > As was explained it is not necessary for the printer to have internal > postscript printing capability as long aas the drivers exist. HPLIPS > provides drivers for most HP printers which work well under Linux. That's why I got so blooming hot, I have an HP PSC-1510 All-in-one that worked right out of the box. It prints, it scans and it copies like a charm until two nights ago, when I needed it to work the most. I'm looking in the files and I'm seeing HAL, which I never noticed before and my selections where gone, where I set the printer up for 3 different print modes. I don't recall ever having a problem with gimp or anything else. It was printing just fine in text mode, until I printed a graphical page and then it started spewing paper, in front of a fervent Windows user no less. Bad night. Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================
