Recommendation for a Postscript capable laser printer
Hello, I am trying to find a laser printer that will work without *any* problem on Suse, and speaks Postscript, or rather can be spoken to directly in postscript :) Speed is not that important, cheapness is. I thought I had just found a reasonable priced HP Model, but .. alas .. it is a frigging windows printer (this is even hitting the laser world now). Cheap, reliable, preferably does not pollute my space with Ozone too much.. Any suggestions .. since I don't live in the US, dollar prices are not much use, but that can be relatavised, I mean if model a is cheaper than model b there,it probably is here. The only printer that I have a bad feeling about are anything made by Lexmark, but that was due to a traumatic event some years ago. I could probably be talked out of it :) Thanks for any advice. -- Regards Cliff
This was on the comp.os.linux.hardware newsgroup Regards Brian Marr Are you looking for a postscript printer that works great on Linux, Solaris, AIX, UX? I am selling an Apple LaserWriter NTR on ebay @ http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1292012026. It is a 100 percent postscript printer so no driver is needed. It works great on other unix flavors too! n Saturday 03 November 2001 08:00, you wrote:
Hello, I am trying to find a laser printer that will work without *any* problem on Suse, and speaks Postscript, or rather can be spoken to directly in postscript :) Speed is not that important, cheapness is. I thought I had just found a reasonable priced HP Model, but .. alas .. it is a frigging windows printer (this is even hitting the laser world now).
Cheap, reliable, preferably does not pollute my space with Ozone too much..
Any suggestions .. since I don't live in the US, dollar prices are not much use, but that can be relatavised, I mean if model a is cheaper than model b there,it probably is here.
The only printer that I have a bad feeling about are anything made by Lexmark, but that was due to a traumatic event some years ago. I could probably be talked out of it :)
Thanks for any advice.
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 10:30:31PM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
Hello, I am trying to find a laser printer that will work without *any* problem on Suse, and speaks Postscript, or rather can be spoken to directly in postscript :) Speed is not that important, cheapness is.
If speed doesn't matter, can it be ink-jet?
I thought I had just found a reasonable priced HP Model, but .. alas .. it is a frigging windows printer (this is even hitting the laser world now).
Cheap, reliable, preferably does not pollute my space with Ozone too much..
Any suggestions .. since I don't live in the US, dollar prices are not much use, but that can be relatavised, I mean if model a is cheaper than model b there,it probably is here.
The only printer that I have a bad feeling about are anything made by Lexmark, but that was due to a traumatic event some years ago. I could probably be talked out of it :)
I've been using Lexmark OptraColor 40 for more than a year now. It's a pure Postscript. It was a bargain price of $100 at buy.com I only added 16MB SIMM to it to be able to print a full page of graphics. It just works. Nothing to complain. The only drawback, it's out of production. -Kastus
Thanks for any advice.
-- Regards Cliff
On Fri, 2001-11-02 at 14:30, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
Hello, I am trying to find a laser printer that will work without *any* problem on Suse, and speaks Postscript, or rather can be spoken to directly in postscript :) Speed is not that important, cheapness is. I thought I had just found a reasonable priced HP Model, but .. alas .. it is a frigging windows printer (this is even hitting the laser world now).
Cheap, reliable, preferably does not pollute my space with Ozone too much..
Any suggestions .. since I don't live in the US, dollar prices are not much use, but that can be relatavised, I mean if model a is cheaper than model b there,it probably is here.
The only printer that I have a bad feeling about are anything made by Lexmark, but that was due to a traumatic event some years ago. I could probably be talked out of it :)
Thanks for any advice.
-- Regards Cliff
I am using a Lexmark Optra E312 which comes with postscript in the printer. (not the E312L which is a windows printer) The E312 is a laser printer available that I purchased about a year or so ago, do not know if it is still available. Using it as a postscript printer works fine in SuSE. Lexmark does make Linux drivers for this printer, but it works as Postscript so I did not install the other drivers. In Canadian $ I paid about $450 (~ US$290) and the replacement cartridges for 6000 pages cost about C$190 (~ US$120). Overall, works well here. -- Ralph Sanford - If your government does not trust you, rsanford@telusplanet.net - should you trust your government? DH/DSS Key - 0x7A1BEA01
I recently bought a LaserJet 2200D. It was a bit under US$700. It goes like the devil, does PS, and works fine under SuSE Linux 7.2. This is not what I would call cheap, but I figured that you can always get supplies for HP gear. Do not, BTW, buy an OKI Led printer. I don't care what the compatibility list on line says, I threw one out because while the compat list said it worked, not a line ever came out of it. It worked in Windows, of course. When the toner ran out, so did it. --doug At 22:30 11/02/2001 +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
Hello, I am trying to find a laser printer that will work without *any* problem on Suse, and speaks Postscript, or rather can be spoken to directly in postscript :) Speed is not that important, cheapness is. I thought I had just found a reasonable priced HP Model, but .. alas .. it is a frigging windows printer (this is even hitting the laser world now).
Cheap, reliable, preferably does not pollute my space with Ozone too much..
Any suggestions .. since I don't live in the US, dollar prices are not much use, but that can be relatavised, I mean if model a is cheaper than model b there,it probably is here.
The only printer that I have a bad feeling about are anything made by Lexmark, but that was due to a traumatic event some years ago. I could probably be talked out of it :)
Thanks for any advice.
-- Regards Cliff
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Ok, I am collecting the replies. And trying to swallow my extreme prejudice against Lexmarks (on a project I worked on the customer bought several thousand of them, because they were cheaper than the HP model we recommended. They were *endlessly* problematic with paper jamming, the one we had for testing took a Lexmark engineer several hours of taking it to pieces, this was admittedly after i lost my temper with it after the 1000th jam and got a bit over-enthusiastic with pulling all the jammed paper out .. :). It seems they were very sensitive to environmental temperature (the room we worked in was very warm). The same customer bought systems with Windows 95 rather than NT, and I know what you all think of Microsoft, but I can tell you Windows NT Client is a *lot* stabler than any of the Windows 9x series...anyway that is another story. I have a budget for this of 1000 Dutch Guldens, that would be I guess about US$500. But here in Holland we pay 19% BTW (BTW = sales tax) on everything of this nature, so dollar/gulden comparisions are not helpful. The only HP Laserjet I can find under that price is a Windows Printer. There seems to be some Canons, are they a possibility ? I shall do some googling when I see the recommendations. I have looked at the Suse h/ware database, but I always find it a bit short on detail, and very equivocal about a lot of things. And you have to be so careful, Suse has support for HP1000's for example. The model I saw, and got excited about was a HP1000W, until I discovered what the "W" stood for. Thanks for any more input :) -- Regards cliff On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 10:18:45PM -0500, Doug McGarrett wrote:
I recently bought a LaserJet 2200D. It was a bit under US$700. It goes like the devil, does PS, and works fine under SuSE Linux 7.2. This is not what I would call cheap, but I figured that you can always get supplies for HP gear. Do not, BTW, buy an OKI Led printer. I don't care what the compatibility list on line says, I threw one out because while the compat list said it worked, not a line ever came out of it. It worked in Windows, of course. When the toner ran out, so did it.
--doug
At 22:30 11/02/2001 +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
Hello, I am trying to find a laser printer that will work without *any* problem on Suse, and speaks Postscript, or rather can be spoken to directly in postscript :) Speed is not that important, cheapness is. I thought I had just found a reasonable priced HP Model, but .. alas .. it is a frigging windows printer (this is even hitting the laser world now).
Cheap, reliable, preferably does not pollute my space with Ozone too much..
Any suggestions .. since I don't live in the US, dollar prices are not much use, but that can be relatavised, I mean if model a is cheaper than model b there,it probably is here.
The only printer that I have a bad feeling about are anything made by Lexmark, but that was due to a traumatic event some years ago. I could probably be talked out of it :)
Thanks for any advice.
-- Regards Cliff
On 02-Nov-01 Cliff Sarginson wrote:
Hello, I am trying to find a laser printer that will work without *any* problem on Suse, and speaks Postscript, or rather can be spoken to directly in postscript :) Speed is not that important, cheapness is. I thought I had just found a reasonable priced HP Model, but .. alas .. it is a frigging windows printer (this is even hitting the laser world now).
Cheap, reliable, preferably does not pollute my space with Ozone too much..
I've been using a Brother HL-1070 for a couple of years
and, mainly, it has worked very well. I paid about 300 GBP
(about US$ 450) for it.
This model has built-in "BrotherScript" which is a close
(but not unfortunately exact) emulation of true PostScript
Level 2.
In particular, the fonts are slightly different -- though
you wouldn't notice unless you looked closely. (It also has
some PS fonts of its own built in, but I hardly ever use
these). The printer recognises the names of the standard
Adobe PS fonts, and produces a very close approximation to
what you would expect.
It also does HPLJ-6P, Epson FX-850 and IBM Proprinter
emulations.
It prints up to 10 pages/minute, replacement toner is quite
cheap, etc.
I beefed it up by adding the max 32MB to its default 4MB,
so mostly there is no problem printing complex graphics.
However, occasionally a complex graphics page will cause
the printer to "crash" -- you get a stream of pages printed
each bearing a PostScript error message; and this shouldn't
happen because the PS being printed is valid; it seems that
there are some extreme things the PS emulation doesn't
cope with; I suspect internal buffer overflow.
It seems Brother has produced later models which also
have PS emulation, though I have no experience of these.
I hope this helps!
Ted.
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E-Mail: (Ted Harding)
Hi Cliff, I suggest you have a look at the Kyocera range of laser printers. They are by far the cheapest to run. I have an old FS-680 with a postscript module at home. At work we are using a FS-1800 (postscript built in). Have not had any problems with either printer. Regards Graham Smith -----------------------------------------
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