Hi Keith,
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 02:42:51PM +1000, John Blue wrote:
I have searched the SuSE Hardware database but cannot find mention of my Lexmark Optra R (4049-12R) Laser printer. I checked the Lexmark site and it mentions support for SuSE V6, I am presently using SuSE V7.3 (or trying to..being a newbie). This printer uses PCL5 & PostScript Level 2.
1. Is this particular printer supported in SuSE (7.3 or 8?)
It should work very well if you print to it using Postscript, probably less well if you use PCL.
Ok. Thanks, I will try that.
2. What is the better way to go, print via Samba, or attach the printer direct to the PC running SuSE?
I have a different model Lexmark (E322) and I have excellent printing results with it directly connected.
3. If printing via Samba and the NT4 workstation would the scanner interfere with the printing? (Under NT this arrangement works OK).
Not quite sure what you are asking here. Where is the scanner connected in this scenario? Sorry, this was in an earlier post. I have a scanner connected to my
I'll kep that in mind, I am not quite at the printer connect stage, still feeling my way. present NT4 workstation on the parallel port, and the Lexmark printyer connects to/through the scanner to the PC. So I was wondering if I had Samba running would I be able to print from the Linux machine through Samba to that printer (if still connected through the scanner on the NT4 PC)? It also raises the question, could I connect the scanner to the Linux PC, and the Lexmark printer through the scanner and have the printer work OK with Linux?
I am really looking to advice on the least complicated method of printing.
In general, I've had much better results printing native postscipt to a postscript printer than printing in any manner to PCL devices. It's easy to see why if you know that postscript is the native output from almost every linux program. To print to a PCL printer, the postscipt has to be converted by a print filter into PCL which sometimes works OK and sometimes not. While postscript printers are a little more expensive, I think they are well worth it if you use linux seriously. When I had a PCL only printer, I lost a lot of hair trying to get consistent print output from multiple programs.
Thank you for this information, I will bear it in mind when looking at printers in the future. Best wishes, John
Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ I can C for miles and miles Got spam? Get SPASTIC http://spastic.sourceforge.net
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