On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 01:39:24PM -0400, Glenn Becker wrote: > > Hi, > > I have lived w/o a printer both at home and at work for some time now. If > I need anything printed I've done so from a Mac or Windows PC. Probably > sheer laziness. > > Now, however, I want to do a bit of self-publishing (poetry), and I'm > losing the printer tied to the Mac at home, so I will soon need to explore > printing from my Debian box. > > As you can tell, I'm utterly clueless - what kind of a printer should I > get? I'll be printing mainly formatted text documents (whether formatted > in something like Abiword or something else, I haven't decided). > > Will any PC-compatible printer do? What are the considerations, here? > > Thanks in advance, there are two kinds of printers: postscript and non-postscript. postscript printers are very easy to get working, and provide good quality. non-postscript printers are a complete and total pain in the ass to get working, if they can be made to work at all. many models cannot be made to work. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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