bill wrote: > > I keep wanting to try out a new printer one of these days. > I hear Lexmark released drivers for its Z52 ? in > the city of Anchorage I notice a Epson 900 for 179$. > Would either of these be likely candidates? > The driver of the Z52 is proprietary (no free/open source software) and so it will not be on the downloadable Mandrake CDs. A free high-quality Lexmark driver (I don't know whether for the Z51 or Z52) for GIMP-Print is under development. The driver issued by Lexmark does not support CUPS, so I do not recommend to buy the Z52 or any other Lexmark inkjet. See http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=328553 Buy the Epson Stylus Color 900. It is perfectly supported up to its highest resolution of 1440x720 dpi: http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=92192 Make sure that you DO NOT buy the 900N (ethernet model). This version does not work. I have an Epson Stylus Color 440 (with only 720x720 dpi) here. Already this model prints excellent under Linux. Till
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