Re: [tlug] Printers for linux, was: refurbished Thinkpad X60 with Coreboot & Linux

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

Benjamin Tayehanpour writes:

 > It's still the same principle, though. Generate a PCL file and netcat
 > it.

Neither LasciviousOffice, OpaqueOffice, nor MonopolyOffice have the
option of generating PCL, nor does any version of TeX AFAIK, though.
So in the end you're using a Ghostscript driver, and probably
Ghostscript, as a shim between one of the page description languages
they do generate and netcat.

May as well let your printer daemon do the job in that case, since
it's a completely mechanical process that *should never* require a
human's attention.

So we're back to the Commonly Unusable Printing System, and the
deficiencies that induce that expansion of the acronym.