[cups.general] Xerox Phaser 7400DN (OT)

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Johannes Meixner wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> On Jan 31 10:04 John Jason Jordan wrote (excerpt):
>> Johannes Meixner <jsmeix at suse.de> dijo:
> ...
>>> As far as I understand it, the Linux PPD was downloaded
>>> from Xerox in the Linux downloads section on xerox.com.
>>
>> That is correct.
>>
>> The Windows PPD was also downloaded yesterday from xerox.com. The two
>> PPD files are not the same size or time stamp. I do not understand
>> why they are not the same. I always thought a PPD file was a PPD
>> file, written for the specific printer, and platform agnostic.
> 
> Your understanding and your expectation is right.
> 
> But at the few printer manufacturers that I know about (not yet Xerox)
> those who deal with their Windows customers work basically totally
> separated from their "special forces" who deal with those strange
> Linux folks out there that nobody else understands ;-)
> As a result what they provide to their Windows customers is basically
> totally decoupled from what they provide to the Linux users.
> I guess I learned right now that it is basically the same at Xerox.
> 
> 
> Kind Regards
> Johannes Meixner
 I found this to be true with Brothers also.

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