Re: Using a GDI laser printer in Linux

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From: Mike Holland
Date: Sun, 02 Jun 1996 00:00

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: Andy Wale <walfa@cougar> wrote:
: 
: >I recently became the proud owner of a NEC Silentwriter GDI Laser 
: >printer.  This type of printer has no processing capability of of's own.  
: >The processing power is provided by windows.  I have driver for windows 
: >and windows '95 that came with the printer.  I am curious to know 
: >whether or not linux, or indeed any flavour of unix, can support GDI 
: >printers.

Your only real hope is a GDI driver for Ghostscript. This is logical since
most Linux systems use ghostscript to do all the print processing, and
just download page bitmaps to the printer.
   But is GDI a cable-level protocol, or an API to a MS-win software driver?
 
: >This is not really a problem for me, but more of a curiosity.
: 
: 

-- 
Mike Holland <myk@cygnus.uwa.edu.au>   (UWA is just my ISP)
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From: myk@cygnus.uwa.edu.au (Mike Holland)
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Date: 1996/06/02
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