<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> On 07/12/2003 11:55 James Drabb wrote <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid1070762116.17529.2.camel@keelie"> <pre wrap="">On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 19:06, Graeme Willox wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On 07/12/2003 01:47 James Drabb wrote I'm quite happy with the Lexmark printer. If it won't work with Linux then unfortunately perhaps, Linux will be what has to go. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Wow! Your going to give up on Linux because of one poorly made, proprietary printer? Oh well. Is Linux running on a separate PC? You could try to print to it using samba. Though I don't know if that will work because Lexmark uses their own proprietary protocol to talk to the printer. Jim Drabb </pre> </blockquote> I'd like to give Linux a fair go, but given that I can't return the printer, what you're suggesting is that I effectively throw away a $500 printer. In answer to your question, Linux isn't running on a separate PC. At the moment, I'm using grub to choose between Linux and Windows XP Pro. I'll have a look at samba. I guess my biggest problem with Linux at the moment is that I still know absolutely nothing about it. I didn't even download it myself. I can't get broadband internet access in my area. I got a copy of Fedora from someone else who uses it. I considered it a major achievement when I managed to have my fat32 partitions mount automatically each time the machine is booted. :-) </body> </html>