printer advice

[François Patte]

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Bonjour,

I need a printer and I found two laser printers available where I am
living now:

Brother HL-2032
Samsung ML-1630/SEE


I am not sure if they are working under fedora 8, because I cannot see
these printers in the list of available drivers (using
system-config-printer)

Does anybody have some experiences about these printers?

Thanks a lot.
- --
François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Université Paris Descartes
45, rue des Saints Pères
F-75270 Paris Cedex 06
Tél. [phone]
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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[Amadeus W.M.]

On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:24:06 +0200, François Patte wrote:

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>  Bonjour,
>  
>  I need a printer and I found two laser printers available where I am
>  living now:
>  
>  Brother HL-2032
>  Samsung ML-1630/SEE
>  
>  
>  I am not sure if they are working under fedora 8, because I cannot see
>  these printers in the list of available drivers (using
>  system-config-printer)
>  
>  Does anybody have some experiences about these printers?
>  
>  Thanks a lot.
>  - --
>  François Patte
>  UFR de mathématiques et informatique Université Paris Descartes
>  45, rue des Saints Pères
>  F-75270 Paris Cedex 06
>  Tél. [phone]
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http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/OpenPrinting

[g]

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François Patte wrote:
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>  Thanks for your answer but I found some problem with brother web
> page: I
>  did not find this HL-2032 printer and if I want to contact them, they
>  require the reference of the printer ... which is not in the menu list....
>  
>  So, I can't send an email to enquire about a brother printer that I can
>  buy but which is not listed on the web site of the manufacturer...
>  
>  I must miss something, or I did not find the right web page. 
you did not miss anything. this is something typical of brother.

they seem to be of a bad habit of dropping models that are not current.
you may be able to buy it, but that does not mean they consider it to
be current.

i would suggest you go ahead and email them to see if and now they respond.


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[François Patte]

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Gene Heskett a écrit :
>  On Thursday 14 August 2008, François Patte wrote:
> > Bonjour,
> >
> > I need a printer and I found two laser printers available where I am
> > living now:
> >
> > Brother HL-2032
> > Samsung ML-1630/SEE
> >
>  I cannot testify about the samsung, but Brother has what I would call 
>  excellent linux support, but you will need to get the correct set of ppd 
>  files from their web page.  If this printer isn't there, there is an email 
>  link to their support on the web page, 
Thanks for your answer but I found some problem with brother web page: I
did not find this HL-2032 printer and if I want to contact them, they
require the reference of the printer ... which is not in the menu list....

So, I can't send an email to enquire about a brother printer that I can
buy but which is not listed on the web site of the manufacturer...

I must miss something, or I did not find the right web page.

- --
François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Université Paris Descartes
45, rue des Saints Pères
F-75270 Paris Cedex 06
Tél. [phone]
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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[Kevin Cummings]

Seann Clark wrote:
>  Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Thursday 14 August 2008, François Patte wrote:
> >  
> >> Bonjour,
> >>
> >> I need a printer and I found two laser printers available where I am
> >> living now:
> >>
> >> Brother HL-2032
> >> Samsung ML-1630/SEE
> >>
> >>     
> > I cannot testify about the samsung, but Brother has what I would call 
> > excellent linux support, but you will need to get the correct set of 
> > ppd files from their web page.  If this printer isn't there, there is 
> > an email link to their support on the web page, and my query regarding 
> > an HL-2140 I had just bought was answered quickly, competently and 
> > courteously, pointing me at the correct file to download.  Self 
> > extracting, it installed itself in the proper location to be found by 
> > a restart of the cupsd daemon.  Then it was a simple matter of adding 
> > another printer profile at http://localhost:631.
> >
> > HTH.
> >   
>  I have just this week set up a Samsung on Fedora 9 with little problem. 
>  It wasn't the ML-1630 but it was a CLP-610ND, and for CUPS to play with 
>  it, I just needed to grab the ppd and rastertosamsungsplc to the 
>  appropriate directories on my system and everything worked wonderfully. 
>  Now getting it to work right in Samba... well that was a different story 
>  (I don't know Samba well, so it was interesting to get it  to play well 
>  with my systems that don't speak CUPS natively.) but support is pretty 
>  good on that. Using Samsung, the 'install' program they provide can 
>  really hose a linux system though. (NewEgg review was the source of this 
>  knowledge, and I didn't even attempt the installer from Samsung) 
I set up a Samsung CLP-510 laser under FC5 using Samsung's supplied 
lpr-ng driver.  Worked just fine with cups.  Its even survived that 
machines upgrade to F8.

Samsung now has a UnifiedLinuxDriver for their printers.  The last time 
I noticed it, it was:  20070720172411796_UnifiedLinuxDriver.tar.gz
It may have been updated since then.  I have *not* installed it since my 
previous setup continues to work just fine for me.

-- 
Kevin J. Cummings
kjchome(a)rcn.com
cummings(a)kjchome.homeip.net
cummings(a)kjc386.framingham.ma.us
Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org)

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 14 August 2008 11:24, François Patte wrote:
>  Bonjour,
>
>  I need a printer and I found two laser printers available where I am
>  living now:
>
>  Brother HL-2032
>  Samsung ML-1630/SEE
>
>
>  I am not sure if they are working under fedora 8, because I cannot see
>  these printers in the list of available drivers (using
>  system-config-printer)
>
>  Does anybody have some experiences about these printers?
>
>  Thanks a lot.
>  
I don't know anything about Samsung, but Brother provide good linux drivers 
for many models, from their website.

Anne

[Seann Clark]

Gene Heskett wrote:
>  On Thursday 14 August 2008, François Patte wrote:
>    
> > Bonjour,
> >
> > I need a printer and I found two laser printers available where I am
> > living now:
> >
> > Brother HL-2032
> > Samsung ML-1630/SEE
> >
> >     
>  I cannot testify about the samsung, but Brother has what I would call 
>  excellent linux support, but you will need to get the correct set of ppd 
>  files from their web page.  If this printer isn't there, there is an email 
>  link to their support on the web page, and my query regarding an HL-2140 I 
>  had just bought was answered quickly, competently and courteously, pointing 
>  me at the correct file to download.  Self extracting, it installed itself in 
>  the proper location to be found by a restart of the cupsd daemon.  Then it 
>  was a simple matter of adding another printer profile at 
>  http://localhost:631.
>
>  HTH.
>     
I have just this week set up a Samsung on Fedora 9 with little problem. 
It wasn't the ML-1630 but it was a CLP-610ND, and for CUPS to play with 
it, I just needed to grab the ppd and rastertosamsungsplc to the 
appropriate directories on my system and everything worked wonderfully. 
Now getting it to work right in Samba... well that was a different story 
(I don't know Samba well, so it was interesting to get it  to play well 
with my systems that don't speak CUPS natively.) but support is pretty 
good on that. Using Samsung, the 'install' program they provide can 
really hose a linux system though. (NewEgg review was the source of this 
knowledge, and I didn't even attempt the installer from Samsung)
>    
> > I am not sure if they are working under fedora 8, because I cannot see
> > these printers in the list of available drivers (using
> > system-config-printer)
> >
> > Does anybody have some experiences about these printers?
> >
> > Thanks a lot.
> > --
> > François Patte
> > UFR de mathématiques et informatique
> > Université Paris Descartes
> > 45, rue des Saints Pères
> > F-75270 Paris Cedex 06
> > Tél. [phone]
> > http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
> >     
>
>     
Regards,
Seann

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 14 August 2008, François Patte wrote:
> Bonjour,
>
> I need a printer and I found two laser printers available where I am
> living now:
>
> Brother HL-2032
> Samsung ML-1630/SEE
>  
I cannot testify about the samsung, but Brother has what I would call 
excellent linux support, but you will need to get the correct set of ppd 
files from their web page.  If this printer isn't there, there is an email 
link to their support on the web page, and my query regarding an HL-2140 I 
had just bought was answered quickly, competently and courteously, pointing 
me at the correct file to download.  Self extracting, it installed itself in 
the proper location to be found by a restart of the cupsd daemon.  Then it 
was a simple matter of adding another printer profile at 
http://localhost:631.

HTH.

> I am not sure if they are working under fedora 8, because I cannot
> see
> these printers in the list of available drivers (using
> system-config-printer)
>
> Does anybody have some experiences about these printers?
>
> Thanks a lot.
> --
> François Patte
> UFR de mathématiques et informatique
> Université Paris Descartes
> 45, rue des Saints Pères
> F-75270 Paris Cedex 06
> Tél. [phone]
> http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte 


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