Networked, duplexing, colour laser printer
Dear everyone, I'm looking for a duplexing colour laser printer that I can put onto our small home network, either wired or wireless. If possible I'd prefer something where the toner cartridges aren't extortionatelly priced, but that might be too much to ask. I've been looking at something like the Epson Aculaser C1100N. I've looked at /www.linuxprinting.org/ and checked the general level of linux compatibility and Epson look like a good bet. I'd appreciate hearing peoples' experiences with linux and colour laser printers. Any recommendations? Anything to avoid? Thank you for any advice. 'ö-Dzin
On Monday 30 January 2006 08:38, 'o-Dzin Tridral wrote:
Dear everyone,
I'm looking for a duplexing colour laser printer that I can put onto our small home network, either wired or wireless. If possible I'd prefer something where the toner cartridges aren't extortionatelly priced, but that might be too much to ask.
I've been looking at something like the Epson Aculaser C1100N. I've looked at /www.linuxprinting.org/ and checked the general level of linux compatibility and Epson look like a good bet. I'd appreciate hearing peoples' experiences with linux and colour laser printers. Any recommendations? Anything to avoid?
I have been running a Samsung CLP 550N laser printer for about 12 months and have not any problems. Easy to configure using their drivers which interface to CUPS. The only thing is the toner cartridges are not cheap but then no colour laser toner cartridges are cheap. Think 4 times the cost of a monochrome laser printer. The built in duplexing is a great and could not do without it. http://samsung.com/Products/PrinterandMultifunction/ColorLaserPrinters/CLP_5... -- Regards, Graham Smith
Hello, On Jan 29 21:38 'o-Dzin Tridral wrote (shortened):
I'm looking for a duplexing colour laser printer ... I've been looking at something like the Epson Aculaser C1100N. I've looked at /www.linuxprinting.org/ and checked the general level of linux compatibility and Epson look like a good bet.
The general level does not prove that the particular model will work. If you pay for a color laser printer, think about a real PostScript printer, see http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2000/08/jsmeix_print-kompatibel.html In particular for a color laser printers there are not much non-PostScript drivers which result really high quality (perhaps except pxlcolor) because the non-PostScript drivers for laser printers are often limited up to 300 or 600 dpi. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5 Mail: jsmeix@suse.de 90409 Nuernberg, Germany WWW: http://www.suse.de/
Johannes Meixner wrote:
Hello,
On Jan 29 21:38 'o-Dzin Tridral wrote (shortened):
I'm looking for a duplexing colour laser printer
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I've been looking at something like the Epson Aculaser C1100N. I've looked at /www.linuxprinting.org/ and checked the general level of linux compatibility and Epson look like a good bet.
The general level does not prove that the particular model will work.
If you pay for a color laser printer, think about a real PostScript printer, see http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2000/08/jsmeix_print-kompatibel.html
In particular for a color laser printers there are not much non-PostScript drivers which result really high quality (perhaps except pxlcolor) because the non-PostScript drivers for laser printers are often limited up to 300 or 600 dpi.
Kind Regards Johannes Meixner
I have a Xerox Phaser 6100DN, which has USB, Parallel and Ethernet connections. (http://www.office.xerox.com/cgi-bin/detail.pl?sku=6100/DN) It has native Linux drivers för i386 and PPC. (http://www.support.xerox.com/go/results.asp?Xlang=en_US&XCntry=USA&prodID=6100&ripId=&Xtype=download) /Jan K.
On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 12:24 +0100, Johannes Meixner wrote:
Hello,
On Jan 29 21:38 'o-Dzin Tridral wrote (shortened):
I'm looking for a duplexing colour laser printer ... I've been looking at something like the Epson Aculaser C1100N. I've looked at /www.linuxprinting.org/ and checked the general level of linux compatibility and Epson look like a good bet.
The general level does not prove that the particular model will work.
If you pay for a color laser printer, think about a real PostScript printer, see http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2000/08/jsmeix_print-kompatibel.html
In particular for a color laser printers there are not much non-PostScript drivers which result really high quality (perhaps except pxlcolor) because the non-PostScript drivers for laser printers are often limited up to 300 or 600 dpi.
Kind Regards Johannes Meixner
Johannes is there a web page with the various links to sdb entries that you have authored?
Hello, On Jan 30 09:57 Mike McMullin wrote (shortened):
Johannes is there a web page with the various links to sdb entries that you have authored?
I don't know such a page but try in Google jsmeix portal sdb en html -lists -ftp site:suse.com or "Feedback welcome: Send Mail to jsmeix@suse.de" and you should get most of my sdb articles. Kind Regards, Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5 Mail: jsmeix@suse.de 90409 Nuernberg, Germany WWW: http://www.suse.de/
Dear all,
Back in january I was asking for advice on colour laser printers. I just
wanted to thank every one for their help and say that I now have a Xerox
Phaser 6120. It's not networked yet, just directly attached to a PC running
Suse 10. I've been very happy with the printer - it seems to be entirely
reliable.
Many thanks,
'o-Dzin
On 29/01/06, 'o-Dzin Tridral
Dear everyone,
I'm looking for a duplexing colour laser printer that I can put onto our small home network, either wired or wireless. If possible I'd prefer something where the toner cartridges aren't extortionatelly priced, but that might be too much to ask.
I've been looking at something like the Epson Aculaser C1100N. I've looked at /www.linuxprinting.org/ and checked the general level of linux compatibility and Epson look like a good bet. I'd appreciate hearing peoples' experiences with linux and colour laser printers. Any recommendations? Anything to avoid?
Thank you for any advice.
'ö-Dzin
-- 'ö-Dzin Tridral Caerdydd, Cymru www.spacious-passion.org Meistr pob gwaith yw ymarfer
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'o-Dzin Tridral -
Graham Smith -
Jan Karjalainen -
Johannes Meixner -
Mike McMullin