Glenn Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > As you can tell, I'm utterly clueless - what kind of a printer should I > get? I'll be printing mainly formatted text documents (whether formatted > in something like Abiword or something else, I haven't decided). > > Will any PC-compatible printer do? What are the considerations, here?
Well there are basically two main types of printers: postscript and non-postscript. IMO true postscript printers are FAR too expensive and don't provide much for quality of the output. So that leaves non-postscript prints, for me at least. I narrowed my choices down to ink-jet because they provide a good price, performance, qualtiy combo. Since I was not getting a true postscript printer I needed to use ghostscript to convert postscript output into something the printer could understand. So I visited the ghostscript home page and looked throught the list of supported printers. After comparing each of these printers I finally decided on an Epson Stylus Color 900. I used ghostscript 5.10 package plus the gimp-print drivers (creating a gs-stp package version 5.10-9.1) which works very well. HTH, Ron -- Email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home: <http://farrer.net/~rbf/> Alpha Linux Powered <http://alphalinux.org>
