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In article <0Lnu6.1386$45.5323@newsfeeds.bigpond.com>, LittleFish
<littlefish_au[SPAM ME AT YOUR OWN RISK]@yahoo.com> writes:
>Hi everyone! I am looking for some practical help with lpr and printer
>formats. What the problem is is that I have Lexmark 1000 that I can't get to
>work with Linux.

It is not the difference per se between linux and Windows that is the
problem.
Both will handle the same kinds of files; both can use ghostscript etc. etc.
But your "Win" printer is breaindead. It won't work without a Windows driver 
that is special to it.

Wine does not emulate Windows as such. It creates an environment where a
windows _application_ program will operate as if it were being run under
windows. A printer driver is not such an application program AFAIK. So I
don't think Wine will enable you to use the Lexmark 1000 driver since the
driver is not an application program. What Wine does is convert calls to
Windows facilities to calls to the corresponding Linux faciities. In your
case it is the facility that is the problem. You would have to write your
driver in very low level code, and you would have to have knowledge of the
internals of the device which are probably trade secrets.

BTW my favorite print manager under Linux is not cups or any of those but good
old apsfilter. Visit www.apsfilter.org FMI.

The solution for you is to buy another printer. There are good inkjets out
there that cost as little as $149.

In general the barrier to people experimenting with Linux is not hardware. It
is a combination of the greater sophistication required to set Linux up and
the totally different philosophical approach. The Linux user is supposed to
have some smarts beyond knowing which icon to double click. It is a bit like
driving a car with a stick shift. You do more work, you have to have more
skill but you have more control and possibly more fun. A book titled Linux
for Dummies (and there is such a book I think) is an oxymoron.

RedHat and some of the other distro vendors have done a good job of shielding
the user from the inner workings. This is both a good thing and a bad thing.
Beginners have it easier, but the transition to real knowledge of Linux is
thereby made harder.  

There aren't that many Win-only devices out there --- a few modems and
apparently a few printers. The only sensible solution for the linux guy is to
junk 'em. Or return to vendor, which is what I did when I got suckered in to
buying a winmodem a few years back. 

john Culleton



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