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A device for making hard copies of digital documents.
-There are three
main systems for printing under [Linux], the lpr(1) system, [CUPS] and SambaPrinting.
+In rough order of age and quality:
+* line-printers (the print head spans the width of the form-feed paper)
+* dot-matrix (like a line-printer but with a much smaller and movable print head)
+* ink-jet
+* laser-jet
+
+
There are two
main systems for printing under [Linux], the [BSD] style
lpr(1) system (including clones like lprng)
, and the newer
[CUPS] (which includes optional lpr-style programs for backwards compatibility).
+
+There are higher level printing systems (such as gimpprint
and SambaPrinting) that use one or both of the above-mentioned backends
.
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