RE: [Sheflug] Printers

[Seb James <seb [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 14:02, Morris, David (Allvac, UK) wrote:
> > 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

Canons are doorstops. Epsons have typically provided good linux
compatibility but they make the ink very expensive. HPs are generally a
good make to go for. Kyocera is excellent (see below).

> 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!

I personally prefer usb for printing on Linux, simply because it's
faster than the parallel port and the cables are easier to (un)plug.

> 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! 

Whoops!

An excellent printer manufacturer is Kyocera, whose mono laser printers
are inexpensive, print double sided, have very low cartridge costs and
are Linux compatible and work perfectly.

We supply these set up for Linux use and can recommend them highly.

Seb James
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Business Systems, Hypercube Systems Ltd
Providing Free Software IT solutions.
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