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Mike Battersby wrote:

> ...If I recall correctly, the Lexmark inkjet printers are all GDI, and are
> only ever likely to work under windows (how did you think they were so
> cheap?).  Better advice would be: don't buy GDI printers.
> 
>  - Mike

Yes, they are GDI. That does not mean that they need Windows. I have
proven to my own satisfaction that the GDI does constitute a control
language: I printed to a file from Windows, using the Lexmark driver,
then in linux set up a printcap entry which would send a raw file
directly to the printer port, and was able to print the Windows write
file (printed to disk in Windows) through the Lexmark printer in Linux.
Obviously, a graphics only printer like this still has control codes,
even if it cannot print plain text (something I don't even want it to
do). With the requisite control codes, I can easily write a driver for
my postscript interpreter (Ghostscript), which only requires graphical
control codes.

To address the other issues, I have no qualms about the quality of the
merchandise; I just feel that two weeks is too long to wait after making
a simple request for technical data.
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