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On Sat, 24 May 2003 04:45 pm, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> Mostly what will work on any of the open unix like systems.
> The problem is often just how to set it up. Many will need
> ghostscript to translate from the normal postscript format
> used for output by most unix applications. The GNU
> ghostscript distribution with the stp device caters for high
> performance (I believe) on a wider range of printers.
>
>   http://www.linuxprinting.org/
> is an excellent starting point.

It is indeed!  Thanks for that.  I reckon that was what I was thinking=20
of originally - but the "linux" tag made it look too specific.

--=20
Regards,
Brian