Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (673 mails)

["Andrew Joakimsen" <joakimsen@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jzb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> IIRC, some printer manufacturers do (or did) brand their boxes with an
> indication that they supported Linux. I want to say Lexmark did that,
> but I may be misremembering. I do remember a period of time when I was
> writing reviews that Lexmark was being very aggressive about getting
> reviews of its printers with Linux.

Lexmark has two lines of product 1) cheap crap (winprinters) and 2)
serious business-class printers. For the most part the latter have
excellent Linux support due to generally being PostScript printers.
Feed CUPS the PPD from the Windows drivers and everything (including
extra trays, duplexer, etc) will work fine. I think Lexmark has
recently released a Linux filter driver for some of these printers,
but I don't see the point in even trying that out when the 20kb PPD
works just fine.

I think Samsung and Brother have branded their printers as Linux
compatible, but I recall having nightmares with the Samsung binary
filter drivers.... luckily there was an opensorce alternative, but
just like using the Samsung-provided MacOS drivers  the printer would
pause between pages. Brother officially supports Linux and the quality
of their drivers is pretty good. They interface with CUPS and SANE and
with various distributions and printers I have not seen any major
issues.
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