[plug] printers (yet again)

[Kev]

Hi Bernd

Bernd Felsche wrote:

> The PPD specifies the non-generic printer capabilities. A PPD is
> really only useful with a Postscript printer.
> 
> Although there might be some "cheating" possible with Windows (or
> other systems) doing the rasterisation and just dumping bitmaps to
> the printer, the multi-platform support indicates that Postscript is
> internal to the printer.

Please forgive me, but I'm still not sure of what you're saying.  Does 
the above mean that the particular printer IS most likely a "real" 
postscript printer. and therefore most likely to be OK with Linux?  I 
gathered from your 1st sentence that it's NOT a "real" postscript 
printer, but then it appears to me that in the 2nd sentence you're 
saying it is.

Please, I'm not trying to be funny here - I'm really that thick!

> With the network option, it may even support CUPS directly.

Thanx
Kev

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