On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 13:45 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > OK - I completely understand and completely agree. However I think the > 'printing in Linux' problem seems to go so far beyond the desktop > environment it's scary. Printing is jsut damnably hard in Linux no > matter how you try it. I have printers all around the house. With a > lot of work I can get one or two of them to be available to different > machines, but we run into formatting issues. The HP printer attached > to this AMD64 Gentoo box gives different results with the same > document printed from my wife's box or my son's box or even printed > from here. PostScript printers work perfectly. Don't blame Linux, blame the proliferation of Win-Printers. Some of that junk needs a 100MB Windows driver! Lee
