From: Robert Sweetnam (sweetr at domain indigo.ie)
Date: Fri 07 May 1999 - 16:10:21 IST
Hi All,
I was installing SuSE 6.0 and while I was trolling through the install
options I discovered an option to install a package called PPA which enables
you to print to windows GDI printers such as the HP DJ 820.
Regards
Robert
----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Sweetnam <sweetr at domain indigo.ie>
To: <Noel.C.Carroll at domain life.friendsfirst.ie>; <ilug at domain linux.ie>
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 1999 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: [ILUG] Printer support
> Generally printers that are Windows 95 specific use a function that is
built
> into windows itself to perform a lot of the print processing. A bit like
the
> WinModem issue again. It appears that Micro$oft arent happy with just
> dominating operating systems, but they want to dominate hardware as well
to
> restrict us to windoze purely because of our hardware..... It makes me
> sick.....
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Noel.C.Carroll at domain life.friendsfirst.ie>
> To: <ilug at domain linux.ie>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 1999 3:10 PM
> Subject: [ILUG] Printer support
>
>
> > Maybe this is a stupid question and maybe its closely related to the
> winmodem
> > thread but can GDI (Windows 95 only) printers be made to work under
Linux?
> > I've got a Panasonic KX-6100 laser printer that emulates LaserJetIIP.
I
> can't
> > get NT drivers for it because its Windows95 only. What are the odds
that
> I can
> > get it to run under Linux? Whats the difference between a printer that
> runs on
> > any OS and one that is 95 specific?
> >
> > Noel
> >
>
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