printers for UBUNTU?

[Eberhard Roloff]

Dotan Cohen wrote:

>>
>> Me, I take the Win2K PPD files, dump 'em in CUPS and they work top drawer.
>>
> 
> I've never even thought of that, nice! Can you get that off the driver
> disk? 

Yes If they are not directly available on the disk, you will need to 
expand the files that are to be installed to windows. If the worst comes 
to the worst, you will get them from Windows, where you installed the 
windows driver.

How does that handle special functions, like dual-sided
> printing?

Exactly this and things similar to this are the reason to use the ppd 
files. They describe many things like duplex capabilities, sorter, paper 
trays and much more.

That means:

Your printer needs to work with Linux, if it does not, ppd will not help.

If it works with Linux, you quite possibly can use more of its 
funcitionlaity by using the ppd file.

Note:
Nowadays there are a lot of printers (especially from HP ;-)....), where 
you do not need to do this ppd-step anymore.

But if your printer functionaly out of the box is not what you get on 
windows, it is always worth a try.

regards
Eberhard