Re: [mingp@corel.ca: Anyone in Debian working on or following IPP to make it available on Linux???]
Joseph> I'm interested in printing and Linux, however I haven't a printer yet.
Joseph> I have heard that setting up printing to the point that everything that
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I thought it was your mission to combat FUD, not to spread it?
Joseph> CAN print just knows how to and does so sanely either just doesn't work
Joseph> in Linux, or is an absolute PITA to set up unless your printer happens to
Joseph> be an Apple LaserWriter or similar PostScript printer.
Nonsense.
In short, basically any printer that works via ghostscript is supported. More
details are in a HOWTO. Install the magicfilter package, and basically
everything understood by file(1) can be printed.
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