On Sat, 21 Mar 2020 01:14:27 +0100 deloptes deloptes@gmail.com wrote:
E. Liddell wrote:
I find the best thing to do is look for any printer that supports PostScript, since that means it can use generic drivers that aren't likely to be dropped from CUPS any time soon.
This is AFAIK another crap advise. OF course if a printer supports PS it would works in linux - especially if it was 2002.
Just buy a decent printer that is known to be working - there are cheaper or more expensive once that work pretty well. Some manufacturers are more linux friendly like HP, but also some of their low budget printers are crap.
Sooner or later, support for the printer-specific driver will end--if only because the developers no longer have the hardware to test it on! PS provides a guarantee that the printer will continue to function at a useful level until the hardware dies. *Yes*, the PostScript driver may not support all the printer's features, but most people don't need the fancy bits anyway for most of what they print.
E. Liddell
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