On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Tuesday 03 January 2006 10:55, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Bruce,
On Tuesday 03 January 2006 07:44, Bruce Marshall wrote:
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A printer that does not include its own PostScript interpreter is, plain and simple, not a PostScript printer.
Yes... so??
So... This Samsung printer is _not_ a PostScript printer as you originally inquired (you did say "natively").
It appears to support Postscript3 as well as PCL6. What does that make it? ...
I bought a Samsung 510N about half a year ago based on Samsung's claim that it was linux supported and supported postscript. Well, I got it to work eventually by using Samsung's driver on a 32 bit linux install. The Samsung driver did not work on my 64bit AMD system at all. Without it there was no way to address the printer from linux. So, right now, it works for me by setting the driver up in a virtual machine that runs SuSE Linux 10.0 (32bit version). The vmware virtual machine runs on my 64bit AMD and acts as a networked print server. As you may imagine it took me quite some time to set up this twisted arrangement. Also, I found that while Samsung is cheap initially, the print toner is extremely expensive, and I have gone through the initial admittedly smaller color cartridges within 5-6 months. I'd probably take a much closer look if I had to buy again. Best regards, Alex.