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Re: multifunction device support? HP LaserJet 3100



I looked at one of those too and as far as I could figure out it's a
winprinter. It supposedly has the HP6L print hardware, but it doesn't
support PCL or postscript. I think all the intelligence was moved to the
windows driver. There is a web page about a group trying to get linux to
support the OfficeJet series. I don't know if they're considering this
product or not. I think the OfficeJet products come from a different
division and are ink jet printers, while the 3100 is a laser printer.
Since the products were developed by different groups, the driver might
not be similar.

On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 05:39:00PM -0400, Kiyan Azarbar wrote:
> My dad just bought one of those new-fangled multi-function devices, for
> faxing, copying, scanning (in a limited sense I guess, not a flatbed color
> scanner), and printing. 
> 
> It's an HP LaserJet 3100. I checked the manufacture date: Apr 8, 1998, so it's
> pretty damn new. Of course everything will be fine and dandy in Windows, but I
> never boot into Windows anymore, nor do I want to. We have a little 3-node LAN
> set up here on coax with ancient SMC 8013 cards that works for us so far. My
> dad used to have a Canon BJC-4000, and I used to print to it using the bjc-600
> magicfilter filter (slightly tweaked to 600 dpi, I think).
> 
> I was wondering... does anyone know what filter this new device is best suited
> for? Should I use the ghostscript laserjet driver, ljetplus, ljet3, 4, or
> what?
> 
> As far as I can tell it ain't a postscript printer... so I'm hesitant to
> select any of the ones I listed.
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
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