For printers, if the print natively speaks PostScript, no problem. Just throw print jobs at it. If you want to used the advanced features of a printer, you can usually extract the PPD from the Windows driver package if the manufacturer doesn't offer a PPD download. If the printer doesn't speak PostScript, it's either going to have GhostScript drivers or it's not going to work at all. Even with GhostScript drivers you're going to be in for a world of hurt if you get too far off the beaten path with uncommon hardware. I deal with two Konica Minotal BizHubs (big copier printer fax machines) at work, and have dealt with similar units at previous employers. I am not exactly a fan. The Mac drivers and PPDs are a mess. Simple things like duplex printing are not available, but if you dig in to the custom options for the printer you'll find two sided printing buried in the options. Support for the latest OS X? Nah, after a couple years don't expect updates, if you're lucky the drivers for an OS or two back will work on the latest version. To work around some of the quirks I have 4 different queues setup on my print server (normal B&W, duplex B&W, normal color, duplex color) All printers suck, Konica Minolta goes the extra mile to suck harder than most, which is too bad. Hardware wise they are great machines, very reliable. If you're dealing with a Windows only office you should have no problem as long as you can tolerate their not intuitive device controls and web configuration. Under the hood, pretty sure the software to run and configure these machines was designed by the same engineers who created the hardware. Nobody with a background in UI created this interface. I hate printers. :) -- Andrew Zbikowski http://andy.zibnet.us/ Are you for good or for awesome? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140316/9b9dfaa0/attachment.html>