Re: [Bit OT] Printers
On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 12:35 +0100, Graham Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry for the slightly off topic nature of this question but I thought
> this was probably the best place to ask it.
>
> I'm looking to get a half way decent laser printer for my (very) new
> small business. If possible I would like colour but if a sufficiently
> good black and white is available for the right price I will take that
> as it will mostly only be printing packing sheets.
>
> Ideally the printer will live as a separate device on the network but if
> that isn't an option I am happy enough to run it through cups.
>
> In my ideal world it will also have a duplexer or at least be able to
> accept one.
>
> Finally, it _must_ be well supported by Debian (testing) - hence the
> reason for posting the question here - although I suppose if it's a
> network connected PS printer that wouldn't be such an issue.
>
> I would prefer new and I was hoping to pay up to around £300 ($600).
>
> Many thanks for your sage advice.
>
> Graham
how about putting 'linux' and 'printer' into a search engine, you may
find something like http://www.linuxprinting.org/ which tells you what
works with Linux (but not Debian/testing specifically)
Personally, I've a Brother HL-5150D which does duplex and wasn't
expensive but I do have some problems printing PDFs (the duplexer
insists that it has to be A4 paper and I've obviously not got all the
CUPS & foomatic perfectly set up to do this for all possible PDF files)
Michael
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