Photo quality printing with linux

[Net Llama!]

So in relity, this sounds like a hardware and/or network problem.

On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Joel Hammer wrote:
> I base this on my lexmark printer. It has good linux support, but, I seem
> to recall from the documentation, that for high quality photo printing the
> linux drivers might not be the best choice. I hope I am wrong about that.
> I do know that two way communication is required for best quality printing,
> and you can't get that with a samba served printer. So, maybe that is where
> that impression comes from.
>
>
> Joel
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 10:46:27AM -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
> > On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Joel Hammer wrote:
> > > Is anybody doing high quality color printing with linux?
> > >
> > > I would like to be able to print out color prints of digital images (tif
> > > files).  I know some printers support linux, but I have the impression,
> > > maybe wrong, that for the highest quality printing you need to use the
> > > windows drivers, not the linux drivers.
> >
> > Care to elaborate on where you got this impression?  I've yet to see any
> > difference in quality between what windoze prints & what Linux prints.
> > This sounds like a hardware dependent issue to me.

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