Re: Printer suggestion

[Manuel Arenaz Silva <arenaz@des.fi.udc.es>]

longship@keyway.net wrote:

> Manuel,
>
> Hewlett-Packard, but avoid the "Winprinters"
> Best value for my money would be the HP 970cxi.  It's 12 ppm in B&W
> fast draft mode.  It can do two-sided printing (!!!) and street prices
> are under $350.  I don't know of any other inexpensive printer that
> will automatically print on both sides of the paper.  That sells this
> one to me.

You have hardly convinced me about buying a HP970cxi because of the
two-sided printing. It is a very interesting characteristic. If I finally
decided to buy this one, would I need to carry out any special setup in
my system? I mean (I have Debian 2.1 with the default "Scientific
Workstation" configuration):

1) Could I install the printer by using "magicfilter 1.2-28" and "gs
5.10-1"?

2) What filter do I have to use with the "gs 5.10-1"?

3) What special options do I have to use in order to setup the two-sided
printing?

I am not very experienced with Linux and I dread to have to upgrade my
system or any of its components (because of the dependences).

Thank you very much in advanced,

                 Manuel Arenaz