On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 05:43:29PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: | On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 08:52:00AM -0800, Chad Maine wrote: | > http://www.linuxprinting.org has collected stats on this subject. Should | > give you a list of printers to choose from based on how well they work in | > linux, if at all. Of course, any postscript printer will work perfectly. | | beware that linuxprinting.org lists some non-postscript inkjets as | `perfectly' supported, this is not entirely true as it may still be a | absolute *NIGHTMARE* to make one of these miserable things work.
I haven't seen what it lists, but the HP DeskJet 6xx my roommate bought worked. (I don't remember the exact model, but it was a new one in the 600 series). I had PCL3 in it. I was on RH at the time, and had it printing just fine using printtool without any major difficulty. This was over samba (which I didn't know how to use). The most time was spent trying to get connected through samba since I had to figure out the linux side, then disabling his cheap win32 firewall. DON'T get a "PPA" printer. Those suck. My friend has one and it hasn't been pretty. (Printing Performance??? Architecture, no performance there!) A PCL printer is just fine (PCL5 and PCL3 from experience) and much faster than PostScript. -D
