My Panasonic KX-CL500 (color laser)is a wonderful printer with built-in networking capability which, since it ships with the appropriate windows drivers, works great on the windows side. I need to locate a driver for the Linux side that will allow it to fully function, i.e., provide color and duplex printing in addition to the standard B&W it now does. It's a PCL5c emulation printer but the problem is that I can't find a correct printer to use for it. HP lists the 4610n, 2600n, and the 3700,3550,3500,2550 & 9500 series printers as ones that might be emulated. However, I don't find anything available that looks like these. Has anyone had any experience with this Panasonic printer or any ideas as to which available driver might provide the full capabilities available? tia, dave -- David C. Johanson Linux Counter # 116410 Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 People who behold a phenomenon will often extend their thinking beyond it; people who merely hear about the phenomenon will not be moved to think at all. -- Goethe
David Johanson wrote:
My Panasonic KX-CL500 (color laser)is a wonderful printer with built-in networking capability which, since it ships with the appropriate windows drivers, works great on the windows side.
I need to locate a driver for the Linux side that will allow it to fully function, i.e., provide color and duplex printing in addition to the standard B&W it now does. It's a PCL5c emulation printer but the problem is that I can't find a correct printer to use for it. HP lists the 4610n, 2600n, and the 3700,3550,3500,2550 & 9500 series printers as ones that might be emulated. However, I don't find anything available that looks like these.
Has anyone had any experience with this Panasonic printer or any ideas as to which available driver might provide the full capabilities available?
tia,
dave
Thank to both Dave and Ken - I've located a PPD file on the windows side so I'll give that a go and see what happens. regards, dave -- David C. Johanson Linux Counter # 116410 Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 People who behold a phenomenon will often extend their thinking beyond it; people who merely hear about the phenomenon will not be moved to think at all. -- Goethe
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 15:41 -0400, David Johanson wrote:
My Panasonic KX-CL500 (color laser)is a wonderful printer with built-in networking capability which, since it ships with the appropriate windows drivers, works great on the windows side.
I need to locate a driver for the Linux side that will allow it to fully function, i.e., provide color and duplex printing in addition to the standard B&W it now does. It's a PCL5c emulation printer but the problem is that I can't find a correct printer to use for it. HP lists the 4610n, 2600n, and the 3700,3550,3500,2550 & 9500 series printers as ones that might be emulated. However, I don't find anything available that looks like these.
Has anyone had any experience with this Panasonic printer or any ideas as to which available driver might provide the full capabilities available?
Checking at: http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi?make=Panasonic it doesn't appear to be supported yet. You might check to see if there is a PPD file on the driver disk, you might be able to use it. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
Hello, On Jul 13 15:41 David Johanson wrote (shortened):
Panasonic KX-CL500
According to Panasonic's info on its web pages it supports PCL 5c Adobe PostScript 3 (Option) If you don't have the PostScript 3 option built in, you must use a driver for PCL5c i.e. you must use a PPD for a Linux PCL5c driver like: /usr/share/cups/model/Generic/PCL_5c_Printer-gimp-print.ppd.gz /usr/share/cups/model/Generic/PCL_5c_Printer-cljet5.ppd.gz /usr/share/cups/model/Generic/PCL_5c_Printer-ljet4d.ppd.gz /usr/share/cups/model/Generic/PCL_5c_Printer-ljet4.ppd.gz Note that ljet4 and ljet4d (= ljet4 duplex) produce only black and white PCL5e which should work on a PCL5c printer and result fast black and white output in good quality. PCL5c color output may be limited to lower resolution. If your printer does not support PostScript, a PPD file from Windows doesn't help you because you need a PPD file for a PCL5c driver for Linux and not a PPD file for a PCL5c driver for Windows. See the differnce between "PPD Files" and "The Filter" in http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/05/jsmeix_print-cups-in-a-nutshell.html To get all features supported you should upgrade to PostScript, see http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2000/08/jsmeix_print-kompatibel.html Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5 Mail: jsmeix@suse.de 90409 Nuernberg, Germany WWW: http://www.suse.de/
Johannes Meixner wrote:
Hello,
On Jul 13 15:41 David Johanson wrote (shortened):
Panasonic KX-CL500
According to Panasonic's info on its web pages it supports PCL 5c Adobe PostScript 3 (Option)
If you don't have the PostScript 3 option built in, you must use a driver for PCL5c i.e. you must use a PPD for a Linux PCL5c driver like: /usr/share/cups/model/Generic/PCL_5c_Printer-gimp-print.ppd.gz /usr/share/cups/model/Generic/PCL_5c_Printer-cljet5.ppd.gz /usr/share/cups/model/Generic/PCL_5c_Printer-ljet4d.ppd.gz /usr/share/cups/model/Generic/PCL_5c_Printer-ljet4.ppd.gz
Note that ljet4 and ljet4d (= ljet4 duplex) produce only black and white PCL5e which should work on a PCL5c printer and result fast black and white output in good quality.
PCL5c color output may be limited to lower resolution.
If your printer does not support PostScript, a PPD file from Windows doesn't help you because you need a PPD file for a PCL5c driver for Linux and not a PPD file for a PCL5c driver for Windows. See the differnce between "PPD Files" and "The Filter" in http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/05/jsmeix_print-cups-in-a-nutshell.html
To get all features supported you should upgrade to PostScript, see http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2000/08/jsmeix_print-kompatibel.html
Thanks Johannes - This printer supports both PCL5c and Adobe Postscript 3. I have two versions of Linux running on my boxes, SuSE 9.3 and Mepis ver 2004.04. The Mepis distro finds the printer and sets it up just fine using the -ljet4 approach, but doesn't recognize anything for color. I don't quite understand as of yet how to make it move over to the Postscript drive to get color. But the B&W supportis fast and very high quality. SuSE, on the other hand, just doesn't want to play (actually that applies to audio and video as well but that's another story) saying it can't find anything. Dave instructed me to import the PPD file into the PPD database on SuSE to get them to work. I'm not sure exactly what that means but I copied the ppd file I got from the windows side (I gather that may be the wrong file) in both /usr/share/cups/model/Panasonic and /usr/share/Turboprint/printers but that didn't work. I'm wondering if I should also have copied the file into /usr/share/cups/model/Turboprint to be sure. In any event, I'm not clear if this is what was meant by "importing" in the database. Any clarification on this would be appreciated, as well as exactly what I do about the Postscript approach. s you can tell this is all very new, and a bit confusing, to me. I'll go now and print out and read the material on the links you've provided. Thanks, dave
Kind Regards Johannes Meixner
-- David C. Johanson Linux Counter # 116410 Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 People who behold a phenomenon will often extend their thinking beyond it; people who merely hear about the phenomenon will not be moved to think at all. -- Goethe
On 7/14/05 3:03 PM, "David Johanson"
This printer supports both PCL5c and Adobe Postscript 3.
I have two versions of Linux running on my boxes, SuSE 9.3 and Mepis ver 2004.04. The Mepis distro finds the printer and sets it up just fine using the -ljet4 approach, but doesn't recognize anything for color. I don't quite understand as of yet how to make it move over to the Postscript drive to get color. But the B&W supportis fast and very high quality.
SuSE, on the other hand, just doesn't want to play (actually that applies to audio and video as well but that's another story) saying it can't find anything. Dave instructed me to import the PPD file into the PPD database on SuSE to get them to work. I'm not sure exactly what that means but I copied the ppd file I got from the windows side (I gather that may be the wrong file) in both /usr/share/cups/model/Panasonic and /usr/share/Turboprint/printers but that didn't work. I'm wondering if I should also have copied the file into /usr/share/cups/model/Turboprint to be sure. In any event, I'm not clear if this is what was meant by "importing" in the database. Any clarification on this would be appreciated, as well as exactly what I do about the Postscript approach. s you can tell this is all very new, and a bit confusing, to me.
I'll go now and print out and read the material on the links you've provided. Thanks,
dave
Kind Regards Johannes Meixner
I got around this on my SuSE box (or was it our OSX box...) by lying to it. The server thinks our cannon laser things it's a Xerox, and it works fine. We just chose another driver and it worked. I'm sure _some_ off the wall function isn't there, but the Xerox has more options than the cannon. I think I used PPD's I copied from our other macs. Just a thought- -- Thanks, George ``Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!'', ``The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,'' 1948.
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