RE: [ALUG] Networking printers with Linux
This is probably a silly question but have you looked at www.linuxprinting.org ? I expect you have, but Justin Case (whoever he is :o) ) Regards, Keith ____________ Beginning is easy - continuing is hard. - Japanese Proverb
-----Original Message----- From: main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk [mailto:main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk]On Behalf Of Chris Green Sent: 13 January 2005 14:42 To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: [ALUG] Networking printers with Linux
I'm still trying to decide what all-in-one printer (if any) suits our needs best. I've narrowed down to a shortlist of:- Brother MFC5840CN or MFC3440CN - Linux drivers soon, ethernet and USB Canon MP780 - No Linux drivers, USB HP 7310 or 6110 - No Linux drivers, but PCL3. USB and ethernet. Lexmark X7170 - Win2k and XP only Dell 962 - Dell badged Lexmark X7170
The Dell 962 is unbelievably cheap at the moment (£83 or so) and is basically a Lexmark X7170 with a few cosmetic changes. The Canon also looks good. The HPs are good but not perfect, the Windows drivers use more than 250MB and I've seen reports of problems with them.
I *might* thus decide to go for a Windows only printer which raises a question:-
Can I connect a printer with a USB interface to my Linux box and share it with Samba so that my Win2k systems can use it even though it doesn't have Linux drivers.
If I can do this then the Dell 962 and Canon MP780 are possible but, if not, then I think Brother is the front runner.
-- Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk)
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If you are after a home or small office printer I have just ordered the Epson RX420, spec and efficiency is good. Plus you can get linux drivers for it @ http://www.epkowa.co.jp/english/linux_e/dl_spc.html. Also if you are looking for cheap ink, epson and cannon seem to have the edge. Hope this helps. J --- Keith Watson <keith.watson@kewill.com> wrote:
This is probably a silly question but have you looked at www.linuxprinting.org ? I expect you have, but Justin Case (whoever he is :o) )
Regards,
Keith ____________ Beginning is easy - continuing is hard. - Japanese Proverb
-----Original Message----- From: main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk [mailto:main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk]On Behalf Of Chris Green Sent: 13 January 2005 14:42 To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: [ALUG] Networking printers with Linux
I'm still trying to decide what all-in-one printer (if any) suits our needs best. I've narrowed down to a shortlist of:- Brother MFC5840CN or MFC3440CN - Linux drivers soon, ethernet and USB Canon MP780 - No Linux drivers, USB HP 7310 or 6110 - No Linux drivers, but PCL3. USB and ethernet. Lexmark X7170 - Win2k and XP only Dell 962 - Dell badged Lexmark X7170
The Dell 962 is unbelievably cheap at the moment (£83 or so) and is basically a Lexmark X7170 with a few cosmetic changes. The Canon also looks good. The HPs are good but not perfect, the Windows drivers use more than 250MB and I've seen reports of problems with them.
I *might* thus decide to go for a Windows only printer which raises a question:-
Can I connect a printer with a USB interface to my Linux box and share it with Samba so that my Win2k systems can use it even though it doesn't have Linux drivers.
If I can do this then the Dell 962 and Canon MP780 are possible but, if not, then I think Brother is the front runner.
-- Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk)
"Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."
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Jamie French wrote:
Also if you are looking for cheap ink, epson and cannon seem to have the edge.
Canon were offensively anti-Linux, last I looked. Have they changed? -- MJR/slef http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ Also available in commercial flavour http://www.ttllp.co.uk
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 05:08:38PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
Jamie French wrote:
Also if you are looking for cheap ink, epson and cannon seem to have the edge.
Canon were offensively anti-Linux, last I looked. Have they changed?
As the OP I've been researching this quite a bit and, as far as I can see printer drivers for Linux seem to be as follows:- Brother - quite good support, drivers are on the Brother web site, probably not as complete or new as Windows but at least they're there. Epson - I've not really looked as the Epson printers don't do what I want but I gather there are Linux drivers. HP - Don't tend to explicitly support Linux but, since PCL is a 'published' language, printer support is available for most HP printers from third parties. Lexmark/Dell - MS Windows support only. Canon - MS Windows support only. The above applies mostly to inkjet printers of course as many Laser printers (even non-HP ones) have PCL emulation and/or postscript. Samsung, although they have their own printer language, do support Linux with their cheap colour lasers. -- Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 06:13:13PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 05:08:38PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
Jamie French wrote:
Also if you are looking for cheap ink, epson and cannon seem to have the edge.
Canon were offensively anti-Linux, last I looked. Have they changed?
As the OP I've been researching this quite a bit and, as far as I can see printer drivers for Linux seem to be as follows:-
This page may help make comparisons, that is assuming that it is being kept up to date http://www.linuxprinting.org/vendors.html Adam -- jabberid = quinophex@jabber.earth.li AFFS || http://www.affs.org.uk/ || Not a filesystem
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 06:30:15PM +0000, adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 06:13:13PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 05:08:38PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
Jamie French wrote:
Also if you are looking for cheap ink, epson and cannon seem to have the edge.
Canon were offensively anti-Linux, last I looked. Have they changed?
As the OP I've been researching this quite a bit and, as far as I can see printer drivers for Linux seem to be as follows:-
This page may help make comparisons, that is assuming that it is being kept up to date http://www.linuxprinting.org/vendors.html
That's useful but I'm not sure how up to date it is, it's certainly wrong for the Brother MFC range, the above page states that support is 'Useless' for the Brother MFC range but if you go to:- http://solutions.brother.com/Library/sol/printer/linux/lpr_drivers.html you'll see that quite a wide range of MFC printers have drivers for Linux from Brother themselves. -- Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Chris Green wrote:
HP - Don't tend to explicitly support Linux but, since PCL is a 'published' language, printer support is available for most HP printers from third parties.
I think you'll find HP do officiall support Linux. http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/ and http://hpoj.sourceforge.net Also, a lot of their printers support Postscript, which is perfect for linux. I'm using an HP Photosmart 7660 which works perfectly under Linux. HTH Chris -- Chris ---------------------------------- E Mail: chris@glovercc.clara.co.uk SIP: 84411389@voiptalk.org IAXTEL: 17003366726
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 06:42:10PM +0000, Chris Glover wrote:
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Chris Green wrote:
HP - Don't tend to explicitly support Linux but, since PCL is a 'published' language, printer support is available for most HP printers from third parties.
I think you'll find HP do officiall support Linux.
http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/ and http://hpoj.sourceforge.net
You're right of course, I should know that as I'm using those drivers for my Deskjet 840C. What I hadn't realised is that there are quite extensive drivers for the non-printing facilities of the Officejet series, that is useful to know. The second link above is out of date now, Officejet support (more recent ones anyway) can be found at the first link. I'm pleased to see that there is Linux support for one of my front runners, the Officejet 7310, so that moves it up the list a little. -- Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."
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