Re: help to choose right printer to buy
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:52:20 -0400, Juan R. de Silva
<juan.r.d.silva@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm looking to buy one of these B/W Laser printers:
Samsung ML-2855ND or Brother HL-2270DW.
I have no personal experience with printers of these manufacturers and
have no idea how good their drivers/support are.
I've never used a Samsung printer, but their support for phones, hard
drives, and other electronics has been very good.
Brother support is horrible. Their products used to be good, but now
they're awful (just like Dell).
Brother have a driver for the above particular printer. But on their
"Evaluated Distributions" page lists only Debian 5.04 32 bit, while I'm
using Debian 6.02 64 bit.
As long as the kernel has dropped support for it, you should be okay.
It also lists Ubuntu 10.04 both 32 and 64 bit. This is fine but would it
work under the next release/s?
Same as above. Ubuntu, however, is much more user friendly in the sense
that it will download and install proprietary drivers as necessary. On my
Debian machine, I compile my own drivers for my unsuported hardware, not
hard at all if you don't mind searching the net for them.
The Brother customer rep shocked me by not being able even to pronounce
the word Linux, by not knowing what 32 bit is, and by asking at the end
of conversation:"How have you named your OS? Is it a special OS, what is
it?" This is exact quote.
Again, Brother support is horrible. I wouldn't expect them to be
engineers, but to at least have heard of Linux and know that is a kernel
not an OS :)
my priorities are:
- reliability of the driver in terms of its availability and OS support
after upgrade to the next OS version.
- reliability of the printer itself
- build-in duplex printing
- cost effectiveness
- I do not care much about wireless, but if it comes, it comes. :-)
If you can suggest any better printer that I've picked up, please, do.
I've had an HP LaserJet p1102w for almost two years now. I've used it with
Lenny, then Squeeze, and now Wheezy with no problems. Even the wireless
printing works. No duplexing, unless you count manual :) IMHO, HP has the
best support for Linux when it comes to printers
(http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html)
HTH,
Mike
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