On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:04:08 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > 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
Well, both of them listed as Perfectly Working, but submitted by user and not verified. The OS/distro and its version is not indicated. I've tried to use Download .ppd file link. It failed with "servers error" several times. It wasn't much in help, I'd say. > As a rule of thumb, I would advise against buying a printer which does > not support native printing of PostScript, PDF or PCL. Brother HL-2270DW - PCL6 Samsung ML-2855ND - PostScript3, PCL6, and PCL5e. > 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) Samsung provides an executable installer but I read a .ppd file is burried deeply but can be extracted. Brother I'm not sure, yet > I've had good experiences with HP LaserJets I cannot stand HP. :-( I just do not like neither company nor their printers. > and currently have a Kyocera FS-C5025N which does native IPP to talk to > CUPS. I'll look at it, if it would be available at my place. Thanks for sharing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/j0nbim$9i2$2...@dough.gmane.org