Laser Printers suggestions? HP 2550 looks good, others?

[Eric S. Johansson]

Walter Tautz wrote:
> Ideally I would like a printer that can do auto-duplexing.
> I print mostly black and white but since colour printers
> are relatively cheap (I bet the toner cartriges are not
> cheap ;-)) I thought it would be interesting to consider
> them also.

I'm using the brother 5170 dn.  But it will not work with the stock 
drivers.  After many many months of working with brother, they have 
given me beta drivers which work wonderfully.  I'm not thrilled with the 
user interface putting the duplexer switch off in the never never land 
of some configuration menu somewhere (i.e. it should be right on the 
print dialog box you see when you hit the print button) but it's better 
than nothing.  The workaround I am trying is creating to printer drivers 
one with duplex, one without.

in any case, it works really well now and if you want the reference to 
the beta drivers, just send me e-mail.

> Am I correct in thinking that native postscript printers
> work under linux? I gather that finer control of the features
> of the printer may, however, not be accessible?

quite true.  I ran the 5170 as PostScript printer for a while when I was 
desperate for any printer that worked off of my ubuntu box.

--- eric