Re: possible printer replacements
On 21 Apr 2009, Paul Johnson wrote:
> Dave Thayer wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:02:13PM -0400, John Lindsay wrote:
> >> I have a HP 990C working just fine under debian (lenny) however I have
> >> seen at a local liquidation store the following laser printers available
> >> at a very good price and it may be time to upgrade. They are the Brother
> >> hl-2170, Brother hl-2140 and the Samsung scx-4300. Has anyone gotten
> >> these printers to work under Linux? According to the requirements lists
> >> software is available for windows products and Macs but nothing for
> >> Linux.
> >>
> >
> > Have a look at <http://openprinting.org/printer_list.cgi>. According
> > to this database these models all work "mostly" under linux.
>
> I'll go ahead and mention right now I have a harder time setting up my
> HL-2170W in Windows than I do in Linux... the driver installation is not
> entirely intuitive in Windows, but all you need is the PPD in Linux.
>
Perhaps a bit OT, but I've just bought a Samsung 2571N laser printer.
With the ppd file downloaded from the above site I could print text
files OK but not graphics or pdf. This was using lprng, not cups; I
don't know if that makes a difference. Anyhow, I went to my trusty
standby, magicfilter, and everything works perfectly. I'm using the
laserjet-filter which is not intended for this printer but seems to have
no problems with it.
Anthony
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