Photo quality printing with linux

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 01:41:41PM -0500, 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.

I have a Lexmark z53, using the gimp-print drivers with CUPS with excellent
results.  These drivers are far superior to the ones that Lexmark has
available.  The only thing I've ever used the lexmark supplied software for
is alignment and cleaning printer heads.

Bill
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