On 21 Apr 2009, Paul Johnson wrote: > Dave Thayer wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:02:13PM -0400, John Lindsay wrote: > >> I have a HP 990C working just fine under debian (lenny) however I have > >> seen at a local liquidation store the following laser printers available > >> at a very good price and it may be time to upgrade. They are the Brother > >> hl-2170, Brother hl-2140 and the Samsung scx-4300. Has anyone gotten > >> these printers to work under Linux? According to the requirements lists > >> software is available for windows products and Macs but nothing for > >> Linux. > >> > > > > Have a look at <http://openprinting.org/printer_list.cgi>. According > > to this database these models all work "mostly" under linux. > > I'll go ahead and mention right now I have a harder time setting up my > HL-2170W in Windows than I do in Linux... the driver installation is not > entirely intuitive in Windows, but all you need is the PPD in Linux. >
Perhaps a bit OT, but I've just bought a Samsung 2571N laser printer. With the ppd file downloaded from the above site I could print text files OK but not graphics or pdf. This was using lprng, not cups; I don't know if that makes a difference. Anyhow, I went to my trusty standby, magicfilter, and everything works perfectly. I'm using the laserjet-filter which is not intended for this printer but seems to have no problems with it. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, and sceptical articles) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
