While I had military service about 6 years ago, my parent's printer died and they went to the local retailer of Minolta to get a new one. When I came home I saw a brand new PagePro 1100L ... as I had feared: GDI, so no chance to get it work with GNU/Linux, BSD, whatever system that isn't Windows.
Now my parents are finally considering to get a new computer as a replacement for their nine year old AMD K6-200MMX. Since I'm not really motivated to help them with Windows problems, I'm currently on a small campaign to convince them to get a Mac. As a first task (at least for me) I wanted to get the Minolta printer to somehow work inside of a network. Therefor I simply wanted to first of all, get it to work with Windows XP. Well ... there are drivers hidden somewhere on the Minolta server, but they are more or less useless as for every successful print you get one error message saying, that the cover of the printer is open while it isn't.
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