Hello, Soon I will lose access to a printer that I have been using and need to buy and install a replacement. I am looking for advice on which printer to buy, and the best way to install it -- as a locally attached printer or as a network printer. The one I was am currently using is an HP LaserJet 2100A which is installed on a Windows machine. I access it via a Windows printer share. I would like to replace this with a printer of similar quality, perhaps the same model. Has anyone had any experience with this or similar printers, either locally attached or as a network printer. Any advice appreciated! -- ____________________________________________________________________ Robert Paulsen paulsen@texas.net
Quoting Robert C. Paulsen Jr. on Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 10:49:36AM -0600:
Hello,
Soon I will lose access to a printer that I have been using and need to buy and install a replacement. I am looking for advice on which printer to buy, and the best way to install it -- as a locally attached printer or as a network printer.
The one I was am currently using is an HP LaserJet 2100A which is installed on a Windows machine. I access it via a Windows printer share.
I would like to replace this with a printer of similar quality, perhaps the same model. Has anyone had any experience with this or similar printers, either locally attached or as a network printer.
Any advice appreciated!
-- ____________________________________________________________________ Robert Paulsen paulsen@texas.net
The printer howto and the linuxprinting web page have a lot of recommendations to consider. I am using a Lexmark E310 which works quite well. My method is that this printer is hanging off of a suse box and I spool printjobs to it from other systems I have including a win98 and second SuSE system. The E310 has been obsoleted but Lexmark offers new printers now and some of them have printer drivers that Lexmark has written. As a resource, the linux printing page is located at: www.linuxprinting.org They offer a lot of good information on printers, etc. -- Michael Perry mperry@tsoft.com ------------------
Well, one printer I can tell you to avoid: I found an Okipage 6e at a fleamarket. It doesn't print in Linux, even tho it's listed as compatible, and half the time it doesn't print in Windows either! And when it does, it takes 60 seconds to load the first page! At 10:49 03/04/2001 -0600, you wrote:
Hello,
Soon I will lose access to a printer that I have been using and need to buy and install a replacement. I am looking for advice on which printer to buy, and the best way to install it -- as a locally attached printer or as a network printer.
look at the lexmark z52 drivers for linux available on the lexmark wwebsite. mine works really well. larry "Robert C. Paulsen Jr." wrote:
Hello,
Soon I will lose access to a printer that I have been using and need to buy and install a replacement. I am looking for advice on which printer to buy, and the best way to install it -- as a locally attached printer or as a network printer.
The one I was am currently using is an HP LaserJet 2100A which is installed on a Windows machine. I access it via a Windows printer share.
I would like to replace this with a printer of similar quality, perhaps the same model. Has anyone had any experience with this or similar printers, either locally attached or as a network printer.
Any advice appreciated!
-- ____________________________________________________________________ Robert Paulsen paulsen@texas.net
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