On 17/03/2015 04:28, j...@m5.chicago.il.us wrote:
If I live long enough, one day I shall post a long article describing the difficulty of using a Solaris-derived system, when the entire open-source world assumes that you are using Linux. But today I have a more specific question.
Welcome to the world of professional Open Source, where you have to fight a silent and strange gentlemens aggreement between business men which try to force anything except MS/Apple/Linux to be legacy and obsolete, and the pupils bugging you with their toys...
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It worked well, until now, because now my printer is a Lexmark X6170, which apparently requires input in "z55" format, and I have no idea what the devil "z55" format is, and how to generate it. The "gs -?" command does not mention any device with "z55" in its name. Thus I now turn to the collective wisdom of the membership of this mailing list. How do I generate z55 output, on my Solaris-derived system, so that I can use my printer for something other than a paperweight? As always, I thank you in advance for any and all replies.
After investigating, I don't believe that there is a real chance to get that working natively under illumos. Three options left: 1. use a Linux qemu-kvm VM as a printer server 2. use wine with the printer driver 3. ditch that one and buy a better supported printer... I would proceed with option 1. _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
