Re: [Sheflug] Printer drivers

[Craig Andrews <nospam [at] fishbot.free-online.co.uk>]

You're welcome.

The SO drivers isn't so much of a fudge as a misunderstanding. The gs
drivers allow you to print anything, from anything (within reason), but
the nice people at Sun (sorry, Star Division), thought that using their
own printer drivers would produce better results.

This only works on postscript printers, tho'. Anyone with a raster printer
(no dreads) which doesn't support postscript commands( and indeed many
laser printers), need a second layer. This is where the drivers set up in
YaST come in.

The generic option in SO just dumps postscript output to the printer
queue. The driver selected then takes it and converts it into something
the printer understands. This is not necessary for postscript printers, as
they understand it already.

Just thought this might help clear it up, but it probably doesn't ;-)

Craig Andrews
craig@fishbot.free-online.co.uk

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On Mon, 15 May 2000, Keith Powell wrote:

> Thanks to Richard, Stephen and Craig for the prompt and informative replies
> to my printer query.
> 
> I have an old dot-matrix printer, which works well using the "Generic"
> printer in Star Office and a printer which it emulates, selected in SuSE. I
> thought, though, that this set-up was a bit of a "fudge".
> 
> I am about to get an inkjet printer and my reasoning was, that to get the
> best results, I should be able to select the actual printer from the lists
> both in Star Office and SuSE. I thought that it needed the correct S.O.
> printer to drive the correct SuSE printer. That is the reason for my query
> about getting other printer drivers for Star Office.
> 
> Thanks again for the information.
> 
> Keith
> 
> 
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