RE: [Sheflug] Printers

["Morris, David (Allvac, UK)" <david [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Hello everyone :)
> 
> My dearly beloved but rather antiquated Epson Stylus 
> Color(sic.) 740 is showing signs of imminently packing up.  
> It's just managed to print nothing over the last four pages 
> and no, I haven't used up all the ink yet.
> 
> My nephew has a rather nice new Epson which does give a 
> better print quality but I have heard that some printers are 
> now winprinters in the way that some modems were winmodems.
> 
> In this respect are there any makes or models to avoid?
> 
> Lesley

I don't know about avoid, but the thing to look for is something that
offers DOS compatibility (some of the boxes even proclaim Linux
compatibility). Also, note that a lot of lower end printers only come
with USB ports. Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer parallel ports!

For mono, anything that supports PCL5 / 6 or Postscript should be OK.
Off the top, I don't know what the colour equivalent of PCL5 / 6 is. It
(strangely) may be PCL5 or 6.

Fortunately, none of my staff are on the list, otherwise they'd be sure
to tell of my blunder of buying four Brother HL1530 lasers which we
found out after are GDI printers. It would have been alright, but we'd
planned for using them on our LTSP shopfloor terminals! All was not lost
though - they got given to (un)deserving Windows users and we used
HL1540's instead!

-- 
David
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