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Andy Dingley Andy Dingley is offline
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On 26 Feb, 23:26, (Steve Firth) wrote:
Bob Eager wrote:
What's wrong with a cheapo inkket?


The same that's wrong with a cheap laser.


Proprietary drivers.


That's becoming less of a problem as more of them offer network
interfaces. If you can find something that works under Linux, it will
generally have a standard printer interface to it (PCL or PS) that any
sensible driver can deal with, you're not stuck with one of these
&deity;-forsaken "WinModem" printers that renders bitmaps on the host
PC.