Dave Thayer wrote:
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 03:45:20PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:Helge Tore H?yland wrote:I just got me a color laser printer thar should be supported by Debian. I am running Sarge and had no problem whith running the shipped LPR/LPRng installation setup. After this I tried to print out the "test"-page. My printer starts up and delivers a nice plane white paper. Looking at the job-list, I notice that the page is delivered with a "amount" of content. But still the sheet is white. Is there some sort of "Debian" way of configuring that I might have missed?I have a CLP-550N and all I did was download the .ppd from Samsung and put it /usr/share/cups/model. After that I configured it with CUPS and everything Just Works(TM).It should be noted that the CLP-550 printers have built-in postscript, but the CLP-500 series only use a samsung propriatory protocol, so you have to use samsung's drivers. From looking at the threads at linuxprinting.org, these drivers can be problimatic to set up. The OP would do well to have a look at the mailing list archives at linuxprinting.org as well as the CLP-500 entry in the database there. There are several people who have posted their experiances getting their printers set up. FWIW, anyone contemplating buying one of these printers should get the 550. Besides having PS, it ships with full toner cartridges instead of 'starter' cartridges, which alone is probably enough to justify the price difference. dt
What did it for me was the place I bought the 550 from was selling it cheaper than the place I was considering the 500 from. So, for me, the "negative" price difference alone did. I had forgetten about the PS/non-PS thing. That was one thing that initially confused me. I was unhappy that samsung chose to have a line of printers with such dramatically different specs. Though, I guess PS is seen as a frill instead of a core feature. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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