Fwd: Re: [H-GEN] Print services to Windows from Unix

[andrew laidlaw]

andrew laidlaw <aa_laidlaw at yahoo.com.au> wrote: Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 11:56:45 +1000 (EST)
From: andrew laidlaw <aa_laidlaw at yahoo.com.au>
Subject: Re: [H-GEN] Print services to Windows from Unix
To: Greg Black <gjb at gbch.net>

Dear General list,
GB wrote:

.... If the answer
involves setting up grotesque pieces of infrastructure like CUPS
(which doesn't work with my printers anyway) or Samba (for which
I would have no other use), then that counts as "Sorry, you
can't do that."

Sorry to go (a little bit) off topic here, but I'm in the process of understanding what goes on in unix printing and had formed the impression that CUPS was the default?

If that isn't the case, then what is the most common unix printing system?  

As a related question, I wonder if there are any recommendations one might follow in selecting printers to purchase for linux, ideally multi-function scanner/printer packages?  Is postscript a must?  There are, on the net, long lists of printers that are held to be routinely useable under linux, but with all the OS flavours and printing options available, how should one check in advance if a given  printer will work with a given linux release without further ado?

regards.... andrew.




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