printers for UBUNTU?

[Karl F. Larsen]

Brian McKee wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>>> elmo wrote:
>>>       
>>>> which printers are OK for ubuntu  and which should be avoided.?
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Well, as others said there are essentially three alternatives, you can
>>> choose from:
>>>
>>> ==HP
>>> ==HP
>>> and
>>> ==Hewlett-Packard
>>>
>>>       
>> That is rather pessimistic. Anything postscript-compliant should work
>> for basic printing. More advanced functions (two sided printing, for
>> instance, or ink levels detection) will need specific drivers, though.
>>
>> Most non-Lexmark printers on the market today are
>> postscript-compliant, and the ones that aren't postscript-compliant
>> will print things wrong in many cases (on both Linux and Windows), as
>> document formats such as PDF and Word (which is designed for creating
>> documents for print, by the way) actually use postscript functions or
>> mimic them internally. Therefore, if a printer won't work in Linux, it
>> will likely print things wrong in Windows as well.
>>     
>
> At the risk of defending Lexmark - they're network printers are most
> certainly compatible as most of them do Postscript and IPP natively
> (along with many other standards, e.g. IBM mainframe stuff etc etc).
>
> I'm disappointed they stopped putting out CUPS ppd files for some
> reason and instead came up with their own 'custom' printing
> application - but it's most certainly linux compatible (albeit clunky
> and ugly)
>
> Me, I take the Win2K PPD files, dump 'em in CUPS and they work top drawer.
>
> Brian
>
>   
    Please add the Wal Mart Brother printers. The laser printer is now 
around $100.00 and my Ubuntu lists it by name and model.

Karl


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