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[Discuss] Is Sharp AL-1540CS a paperweight on Linux



Hack: http://www.instructables.com/id/Use-any-GDI-printer-with-GNULinux/

Script to autoprint/delete things from a shared directory seems not too
difficult even on Windows.



*Drew Van Zandt Cam # US2010035593 (M:Agapito Acosta) *


On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Dan Ritter <dsr at randomstring.org> wrote:

> On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 02:26:05PM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > A friend of mine has a Sharp AL-1540CS and is unable to find a Linux
> > printer driver for it. This is a color USB laser printer.
> >
>
> It's a GDI printer: it relies on Windows to produce a rasterized
> image for it to print. It won't work.
>
> (Might manage to get the scanner function to work, since that
> claims to be TWAIN compliant. Maybe.)
>
>
> -dsr-
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