Re: help to choose right printer to buy
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:04:08 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 08:52:20PM +0000, Juan R. de Silva 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.
>
> Check them in the printer database which may be found here:
> http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting
Well, both of them listed as Perfectly Working, but submitted by user and
not verified. The OS/distro and its version is not indicated. I've tried
to use Download .ppd file link. It failed with "servers error" several
times.
It wasn't much in help, I'd say.
> As a rule of thumb, I would advise against buying a printer which does
> not support native printing of PostScript, PDF or PCL.
Brother HL-2270DW - PCL6
Samsung ML-2855ND - PostScript3, PCL6, and PCL5e.
> These are
> guaranteed to work, and work well, without the need for special
> vendor-specific drivers (you might need a PPD file to enable device-
> specific features like duplexing and the like, but that's it)
Samsung provides an executable installer but I read a .ppd file is
burried
deeply but can be extracted.
Brother I'm not sure, yet
> I've had good experiences with HP LaserJets
I cannot stand HP. :-( I just do not like neither company nor their
printers.
> and currently have a Kyocera FS-C5025N which does native IPP to talk to
> CUPS.
I'll look at it, if it would be available at my place.
Thanks for sharing.
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