On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 03:58:57PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> writes: > > > on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 11:09:38AM -0700, Ron Farrer (rbf@farrer.net) wrote: > > > > Well there are basically two main types of printers: postscript and > > > non-postscript. > > > Wrong. > > Bzzt! You're wrong! > > Name a printer which is neither postscript nor non-postscript. (Ok, > it may not have been the most useful categorization, but I don't see > how it could be wrong.) i don't either, the categorization is useful because the former is simple to get working whereas the latter is a nightmare, unless your very lucky. just one point, the most popular inkjet model lately seems to be epson, the debian ghostscript package will *NOT* work with an epson printer [0], and the original poster does not sound up to the challenge of rebuilding that package with various add on hacks and patches to make it work. i looked into just that a few monthes ago and decided it was more trouble then it was worth [1] and replaced the printer with a postscript model. [0] at least the models which are most likely to be aquired at this time, eg: stylus color 8xx, 9xx, etc. [1] i don't have any interest in becoming my own debian maintainer for the gs packages, and that is essentially whats involved. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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