Samsung Laser Printers - propietary Page Description Language? (ML-1665)

[fred smith]

On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 01:03:52AM -0500, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> On 12/05/2010 10:22 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > I´m thinking of replacing my ages-old HP LaserJet 1100 (PCL4, PCL5, 16
> > MB RAM) with a with a very affordable yet fast Samung (model ML-1665 -
> > product info at
> > http://ho.io/samsunglasers )
> 
> A couple of years ago, I bought a Samsung CLP-510 at a big box store.
> The clinching factor was the Linux Compatible sticker on the side.
> 
> > Samsung provides propietary, binary-only drivers for Linux at this location
> > http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/DR/201001/20100121132724343/UnifiedLinuxDriver_0.86.tar.gz


FWIW I can't speak to Samsung printers, but FYI my el-cheapo Brother
laser printer has been working great for 3 years or so now with my various
Linux systems. Brother provides open source drivers for many/most of their
printers, but to be honest I've never needed to worry about it, I just use
cups/foomatic drivers that come with the distribution for it and it works.

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