Hardware Advocacy or Making it easy to do the right hing.

[Chris Puttick]

For laser printers, look at Samsung and use the Splix driver
http://splix.ap2c.org/ - their printers fall firmly into the
affordable category (it's a specific target market for the Samsung
behemoth) and are good printers (I have had two, currently a CLP510N).

The Splix project develops at a meteoric pace, so the two printers
currently not supported I expect will be shortly.

Cheers

Chris

On 27/02/07, sounder-request at lists.ubuntu.com
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> On 2/25/07, Michael T. Richter <ttmrichter at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I'm trying to find a printer.  It's uphill work because there's a < 1% overlap (and none of these in the "affordable" category) between the printers I can buy and the printers listed as "definitely working" at openprinting.org.  Digging deeper under the covers I find that several printers are basically just relabelled versions of other ones (a total "WTF?!" scenario!) so I actually do have some prospects now.
> >
> >  This was not time well-spent, digging for that.
>
> I know what you are saying. One shortcut I have used is to look for
> printers that are "Macintosh compatible," because that sometimes means
> there will be a driver for them in CUPS. Laser printers, that is. The
> situation is more difficult with inkjet printers. Fortunately for
> inkjets, if you don't mind paying for a non-free driver, there's the
> excellent TurboPrint http://www.turboprint.de/  that supports many
> inkjets very nicely, including old and new ones that are not
> well-supported in CUPS. I use it happily for an old inkjet I have that
> will handle oversized envelopes.
>
> But lasers continue to be frustrating. Several years back I found what
> I thought would be the perfect laser printer (a Lexmark Optra K 1220)
> because it included a network card and support for Mac, Windows and
> linux printing. It's true that it has been completely compatible with
> absolutely everything I have connected to it. Unfortunately I cannot
> recommend the printer because that particular model has not been very
> durable, flexible or inexpensive compared to others. And since nobody
> else bought it, its parts and supplies cost me more every year.
>
> Surely more manufacturers and vendors will start advertising linux
> compatibility... as this thread points out it will be a real draw in
> some circles. A few vendors such as newegg.com already include linux
> in their keywords, and their customer reviews often include comments
> about compatibility. So there's hope!
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