On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 08:52:20PM +0000, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > I'm looking to buy one of these B/W Laser printers: > > Samsung ML-2855ND or Brother HL-2270DW. > > I have no personal experience with printers of these manufacturers and > have no idea how good their drivers/support are.
Check them in the printer database which may be found here: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting As a rule of thumb, I would advise against buying a printer which does not support native printing of PostScript, PDF or PCL. These are guaranteed to work, and work well, without the need for special vendor-specific drivers (you might need a PPD file to enable device- specific features like duplexing and the like, but that's it). If it doesn't support one of the above languages, it's most likely a "raster" device which requires the host to render the page image; this type of printer has numerous issues, including in many cases the inability to print a full page at high resolution and/or lose data due to timing issues and lack of sufficient memory to buffer an entire page. I've had good experiences with HP LaserJets and currently have a Kyocera FS-C5025N which does native IPP to talk to CUPS. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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