On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 17:51:12 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Feigning erudition, Ted Ozolins wrote: > % Its time to acquire a new printer my Caon BJC-210's small ink > cartridge % is becoming a POS. I've been looking at HP6122, HP6127 and > Z65n % (Lexmark) printers. All three of these use a decent size ink > cartridge % and of course the print quality is astonishing. The HP > use PCL 3 and % the Lexmark <shrug>who knows.. Is anyone using any of > these and was % there any "chicken_leg_shaking_ceromony" required to > configure them. % Any pros/cons would be greatly appreciated. > > I have a Z53 that I like very much, but I acquired an HP 4m/L laser > printer from a friend, so I've gone to using it and only use the Z53 > on my Windows system. I recommend a review of > http://www.linuxprinting.org/ > to see how the printers you are sizing up fare there. I took a quick > look, and the 612{2,7} use the hpijs driver, provided by HP. The Z65n > isn't listed. If you want the Lexmark, though, you might try another > model that has a driver supplied by Lexmark - the Z53 is one such. >
Check the threads a few days ago. I gave up on making the Z53 work with CUPS, but Joel pointed out the steps to get LPRNG up and going, and the Z53 works just fine. BTW, it's a parallel-only connection; the USB connection does not work, at least with the Lexamark driver, alignment program, etx. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area gentoo 1.4 system _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
