Printer SetUp Question Re-Visited

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Art Moore <cowboy at pcanswersinc.com>:

> Thanks to everybody who responded to my first note on this question.
> Everybody ended up with just about the same answer which was print
> indirectly via NotePad or Word or use W. Vaughn's suggestion of Print
> Wizard from Anzio.
>
> With all respect to Anzio and many thanks to Bob Rassmusen who called me
> directly at my request my client believes that  they would rather spend
> the money on a new printer that would work with filePro than get involved
> with anything else.
>
> My problem is I have talked with Dell and been to three computer stores.
> Dell knew of Windows GDI but none of the computer store people had any
> idea of what it meant.  None of them could tell me what printer to buy
> that would work with filePro since they never heard of filePro and I was
> not able to explain why it would not work.
[...]
> Any suggestions of what printers to look at or how to explain that
> filePro does not talk Windows GDI to people who know even less than I
> do about it would be very much appreciated.
[...]

You could start by asking "what version of PCL does the printer support"
or "does it support printing from Linux".

If it supports PCL (any version) then the odds are that it is not a
Windows-only "printer".  If it supports Linux printing, then either it
is not a Windows-only "printer", or the manufacturer has worked with
the Linux community to build a driver for their proprietary interface.

You can also check out <http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi>
for printers that are listed as "works perfectly", meaning the printer
probably accepts a standard printer language.  Those listed under the
"paperweight" column are squarely in the Windows-only category.  Those
in bewtween are anyone's guess, but probably in the "Windows-only but
someone has hacked something together" category.

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