Re: not-even-newbie printer question

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Evans <peter@example.com> writes:

    Peter> but is there some website where drivers are archived? I
    Peter> can't find it.

sorry, I was busy earlier, I knew you'd want to know.

First, it doesn't matter what drivers are "available."  Unlike Windows
drivers, they're not loadable (AFAIK), they must be built into the
Ghostscript binary.  (The exception is printers supported by the
uniprint driver, but the quality tends to be lower than for dedicated
drivers.)  Unless you want to build Ghostscript yourself, you need to
find out what the "usual configuration" on your platform is.

Second, here are two URLs for Ghostscript 7.  I don't know which, if
any, distros distribute it yet.  If you like the looks of a printer
there, but it doesn't seem to be supported by your likely distro of
choice (get people on this list to do gs --help for you), I'll be
willing to help you to build and install (but not RPM-ize)
Ghostscript.  Maybe even a .deb if you decide to go Debian for Linux.
(I have some Ghostscript updating scheduled for the summer anyway....)

	    http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/printer.htm
	  http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/cvs/Devices.htm

The UWI site is _the_ net resource for Ghostscript info; get sources
from SourceForge.

    Peter> Now, if someone were to say there were a XyWrite clone for
    Peter> Linux. . . .

There probably is.  But it also probably is written as an Emacs mode!


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