Xerox Phaser 6110 color laser printer ?

[Edmund Laugasson]

> I'm thinking of buying a color laser printer but can't afford so much.
> Has anyone has any experience with the Xerox Phaser 6110?
> 
> I have checked it out on http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting (merged 
> with linuxprinting) and it seems to work OK.
> I also noticed on the Xerox website they have 'PPD Files for Linux operating 
> system' 
> [http://www.support.xerox.com/go/results.asp?Xtype=download&prodID=6110&Xlang=en_US&Xcntry=USA&prodName=Phaser%206110]
> 
> Any suggestions or thoughts?


I have Samsung ML-1710P and it also have Linux drivers from Samsung and also opensource version is 
included by default. I would like to use Linksys PSUS4 USB printserver. Under Windows it is working 
like a charm but not in Linux. Sometimes I got it working (under Kubuntu 6.06) but suddenly it stops 
working and no idea, where to look problems :( I installed Samsung Unified Linux Driver, tried 
several PPD-s but nothing.
Today I tried the same printer and printserver under Fedora Core 6 - did not worked. I turned off 
firewall and SELinux - didn't help. I installed Fedora Core 6 under VM Ware - perhaps this were 
problem, who knows.
It seems like Samsung and its proprietary GDI would be problem. But Samsung itself provides driver 
for Linux - why it is not working? It seems like it doesn't like my Linux or CUPS version, who knows...

Second situation - HP LaserJet 6P and TrendNet printserver (don't remember model) at my workplace is 
working like a charm under Kubuntu 6.06...

Third situation - I have color laser at work Konica-Minolta 2450DL. Manufacturer provides at its 
homepage special PPD for Linux. And it works! I use same Kubuntu 6.06 Linux.

At home I also have quite often hangs at logout or shutdown. Even SysRq keys does not help... I use 
ATI fglrx driver. But this is already another theme.

One of my problems may also be concerned, that I use kubuntu.org packages for KDE 3.5.5. Jonathan 
Riddel warned me, that it may not be good idea to use kubuntu.org packages in mission critical 
systems. Well, next try I will use only official packages. It seems like I will try Ubuntu 7.04 when 
it comes out. Or perhaps I should wait half year to be sure they have most critical errors fixed... 
It seems like when there is next version of Ubuntu coming out, then previous version establishes 
stable status. Hopefully this stable status will be established earlier in future versions, perhaps 
already with 7.04 :)

Therefore I should still have Windows installed on another partition to get printed, what I need :(
Is this really that "Enterprise Ready", what Canonical, Ltd. means?

By the way - does anybody know, when will come out next Long Term Support version of Ubuntu? Or was 
6.06 the only one? I hope, that the next LTS version will be more ready than 6.06. Everything is 
under development and in one beautiful day it works. I hope...


My conclusion - if you have some printer, what uses specific printing language (e.g. Samsung GDI), 
then it probalby will not work. If you have PCL or Postscript printer - then you may have hope, it 
will work. I found Xerox Phaser 6110 at here - 
http://www.office.xerox.com/printers/color-printers/phaser-6110/enus.html

There I see:
	
Linux Print and Scan Driver
Version: 1.0 	Date: 10/26/2006 	Size: 27.5MB	Language: English (US)
PPD Files for Linux operating system

Well - this driver should work. When I look to Linuxprinting database, I see:
http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Xerox-Phaser_6110

There is one link to the http://foo2qpdl.rkkda.com/
When I open this webpage, I see:
*** DON'T USE the foo2zjs package from Ubuntu, SUSE, Mandrake/Mandriva, Debian, RedHat, or Gentoo!
*** Download it here and follow the directions below.

Well - I hope, these instructions and driver from this page would help you. Let us know about 
results. It is quite disturbing to compile whole stuff yourself but it seems like it's destiny for 
Linux users...


Best Regards,
Edmund Laugasson