More Fun With Printing
Printing in Linux gets better all the time, especially when you find the right drivers.
Printing on any platform is part voodoo, part high blood pressure and hair loss, and part yay-it-works-it-works! Linux printing has been hobbled by the usual lack of support from hardware vendors, who stubbornly refuse to understand that we’re buying printers, not their sacred secret eye pee which is not secret anyway. What’s the first thing any company does when a competitor releases a new product? They rip it apart and reverse-engineer the heck out of it. Or bribe some unhappy perma-temp to give them what they want. Not only that, but there are abundant specs available to anyone knows where to look lurking in government file cabinets, because manufacturers have to file all kinds of information with various government regulatory agencies.
Well OK, this really isn’t going to be a rant, but a big thank-you.
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