On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jzb@zonker.net> 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org