On 04/23/2018 10:28 AM, home user via users wrote:
I'm having to replace my 5-year old desktop printer. Like any good project, I
start with requirements!
1. desktop printer.
2. the manufacturer provides real support for the printer running on Fedora as
well as windows-7.
3. has printing, scanning, and copying.
4. color and black-and-white, colors are correct when printing from Fedora as
well as when from windows-7.
5. at least 600 dpi.
6. USB cable connection (not ethernet or wi-fi) between printer and
workstation's tower.
7. either laser or LED, not ink-jet (I'm in a very low-humidity climate).
I am especially concerned with requirement #1, and that's why I'm asking this
list. What fulfils all the above requirements?
Support needs to be more than simply providing a driver for me to download. The at least 600 DPI
has to be real, not merely "effective", "simulated", etc. My now dead printer,
a Xerox Workcentre 6015, claimed either 1200x1200 or 1200x2400 resolution, but I only got 600 real
dots per inch, both in windows-7 and in Fedora. When printing from Fedora, colors were not even
close, but were ok when printing from windows-7.
Which is better overall: laser or LED?
Thank-you for your advice.
Bill.
Hi Bill,
For printing support, if the manufacturer doesn't support
Linux, check for a supporting ppd file at CUPS (Common
Unix Printing System) ppd's website:
http://openprinting.org/printers
For scanning, check out SANE's (Common Unix Scanning System
[cuss]) list of supported scanners:
http://www.sane-project.org/sane-supported-devices.html
To configure saned for network printing, I wrote a How To
which Qoppa (PDF Studio) published for me:
https://kbpdfstudio.qoppa.com/how-to-set-up-your-scanner-to-work-with-sane-and-pdf-studio-under-fedora-27-linuxs-systemd/
My three favorite scanning tools are Simple Scan, xsane, and
PDF Studio.
HTH,
-T
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