Printing in Linux
Brian Kelsay
bkelsay at comcast.net
Wed Jul 16 04:55:43 CDT 2003
Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 July 2003 01:44 pm, Chris Wagner wrote:
>
>>I also currently am setup to print to any printer on our network,
>>which include a Savin 2545 DP black and white copier, HP LaserJet
>>2100M, and a Tektronix Phaser 850N.
>
>>Each seem to have Unix drivers, but I'm just not real clear on how to
>>setup network printers on Linux.
>
> It depends on how they're being shared. You may need a Printer Definition
> File - the other kind of .pdf. CUPS is pretty much standard now, cups.org
> has some decent docs on-line. The LaserJet is pretty much guarnateed to work
> no matter what. Tektronix are imbedded in the old 1960's Unix code, aren't
> they? Savin might be tricky, but if there are drivers then you can probably
> find a GUI util to add them to the 'Dog.
Some of the Savin printers are in there (CUPS), but you may not have
full functionality yet. I set up a Savin multi-function on a work Linux
box six months ago and I was able to print black/white and grayscale.
That was all I needed.
Brian
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