That is incorrect sir.  As long as the printer speaks either PCL or PostScript you can print to it, from almost anything.  All networked printers speak one of those two, and I believe every OS put out since the mid-90s speaks both PCL and PS, and most networkable printers (stand alone types) speak Unix lp, which is universally supported.  In this case, it would be a printer directly attached to a Linux box, which would be able to support lp, and thus Win98 would just need to select a generic printer driver and talk to it via that.

The printer-specific drivers are for more advanced functionality, and fine-tuning.  However if you select "Generic PostScript Printer" or "HP DeskJet" (which is an example of a generic PCL device, you will most likely have success.

Jeffrey.




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