printer advice
Kevin J. Cummings
cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Thu Aug 14 21:18:16 UTC 2008
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.
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Kevin J. Cummings
kjchome at rcn.com
cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
cummings at kjc386.framingham.ma.us
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