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Any printer that earns the name "Postscript Printer" should work easily without any special drivers.

Most of the Linux Printer Drivers are needed in order to convert the Linux standard "Postscript" formatted print job into a form that is readable by some other kind of printer.

Postscript printers pretty much already understand the output of your Linux applications and further translation by a driver is rarely necessary.

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