[PLUG] printer preference?

[Carla Schroder]

On Sunday 12 June 2005 9:39 am, Michael D. Harris wrote:
> Okay, I am at the point where I would like to use a printer with Linux.  I 
> have not done this yet and would like to make it as simple as possible.  So, 
> what printers do you use?  Do you have a favorite that was easy to set up?
> 
> Mike
 
Rising from the dead, Carla writes:

Check out  http://linuxprinting.org/. There are a lot of color and laserjet 
printers that work well under Linux, and this site has a database showing 
which ones are best-supported, and has a lot of good information.

Even though it is often cursed to the heavens, CUPS is a very nice printing 
system. Much better than the old line-printer protocols. The CUPS web 
interface rather sux, but you can also use KDEPrint or Gnome-Print, which 
many folks prefer. Make sure you download both the foomatic and gimp-print 
driver packages, and ESP Ghostscript. Having those will prevent 99% of Linux 
printing problems. The Gimp-print drivers are usually the best.

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