Re: laser printer that is very reliable that runs well under debian.....
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 11:41:23AM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: My experience with Xerox is that they are overpriced and finicky. HP is not my favorite brand, but they do have good linux support now. They get credit for having some of the very best laser printers in the early days, although I can't say anything about today. Still I would give them consideration, since the linux drivers are mostly open source and mostly free. Or at least widely available, including Debian support. And my experience is HP printers are finicky and slow and a pain in the ass, and their postscript support is a joke (no idea how they make it that slow). -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: laser printer that is very reliable that runs well under debian.....
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 04:21:43PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: I bought a Samsung ML-2510 laser printer a while ago and drove it under Debian Etch and now Lenny. It seems to have developed a fault of some sort. The manufacturer says that I can run diagnostic software under either Linux (so it says) or MSWindows that might give me a hint as to why it is freezing up. I don't think it is a paper jam. I could mess around with this but I am very busy. So very busy that it is cheaper in time and money to simply buy a new printer to solve the problem. The printer cost me $100 or so. If I spent e.g. $1000 on a printer solely with the intent of finding one that is very reliable that Lenny will drive well and smell malfunctions and diagnose what they are really well (better still the printer itself has a display on it that gives copious details of any error on it indepedently of the operating system that is driving it that anyone could understand quickly), what printer would you recommend? I am beginning to understand why people buy printers from Xerox etc. Well if I was buying a laser printer I would get the xerox 6130 or 6180, since both have network support built in along with postscript 3 natively. If it does postscript natively you can't go wrong. Do wotch out for the cheaters that just claim postscript support in their windows or Mac driver which of course doesn't mean anything. The 6125 on the other hand does NOT have a print engine and doesn't do postscript and only works with windows. So no need to spend a $1000, about 350 to 400 should do. As for diagnostics, the xerox printers have a web server built in that gives you all the info you could want about what they are doing. So far I have been very impressed by the xerox laser printers. My father uses a 6300 which has been great, and we use a 7400 at work which is a great printer (but much more expensive and a lot bigger). -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: laser printer that is very reliable that runs well under debian.....
Michael, On Sun 13 July 2008 11:21, Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear folks, I bought a Samsung ML-2510 laser printer a while ago and drove it under Debian Etch and now Lenny. It seems to have developed a fault of some sort. The manufacturer says that I can run diagnostic software under either Linux (so it says) or MSWindows that might give me a hint as to why it is freezing up. I don't think it is a paper jam. I could mess around with this but I am very busy. So very busy that it is cheaper in time and money to simply buy a new printer to solve the problem. The printer cost me $100 or so. If I spent e.g. $1000 on a printer solely with the intent of finding one that is very reliable that Lenny will drive well and smell malfunctions and diagnose what they are really well (better still the printer itself has a display on it that gives copious details of any error on it indepedently of the operating system that is driving it that anyone could understand quickly), what printer would you recommend? I am beginning to understand why people buy printers from Xerox etc. Regards Michael Fothergill I've been using three different Ricoh printers here at the office, all under Etch for several years now without any serious problems. One is a color desktop, one is a BW desktop one is a digital color copier/scanner/printer. IMHO the most important criteria are to select a model which natively supports Adobe PostScript and configure CUPS to use the appropriate PPD file. The process has not been entirely painless. I've had some mechanical problems, but Ricoh factory service has been very dependable. One the one hand, Ricoh support will not hang up on you when you mention Linux, but on the other, there are some functions WRT to the multifunction printer that only can be accessed using a Windows driver. HTH! cmr -- Debian 'Etch' - Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: laser printer that is very reliable that runs well under debian.....
One more thing, On Mon 14 July 2008 11:00, C M Reinehr wrote: Michael, On Sun 13 July 2008 11:21, Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear folks, I bought a Samsung ML-2510 laser printer a while ago and drove it under Debian Etch and now Lenny. It seems to have developed a fault of some sort. The manufacturer says that I can run diagnostic software under either Linux (so it says) or MSWindows that might give me a hint as to why it is freezing up. I don't think it is a paper jam. I could mess around with this but I am very busy. So very busy that it is cheaper in time and money to simply buy a new printer to solve the problem. The printer cost me $100 or so. If I spent e.g. $1000 on a printer solely with the intent of finding one that is very reliable that Lenny will drive well and smell malfunctions and diagnose what they are really well (better still the printer itself has a display on it that gives copious details of any error on it indepedently of the operating system that is driving it that anyone could understand quickly), what printer would you recommend? I am beginning to understand why people buy printers from Xerox etc. Regards Michael Fothergill I've been using three different Ricoh printers here at the office, all under Etch for several years now without any serious problems. One is a color desktop, one is a BW desktop one is a digital color copier/scanner/printer. IMHO the most important criteria are to select a model which natively supports Adobe PostScript and configure CUPS to use the appropriate PPD file. The process has not been entirely painless. I've had some mechanical problems, but Ricoh factory service has been very dependable. One the one hand, Ricoh support will not hang up on you when you mention Linux, but on the other, there are some functions WRT to the multifunction printer that only can be accessed using a Windows driver. HTH! cmr -- Debian 'Etch' - Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC Prior to switching to Ricoh I was using HP and then Xerox. I have no regrets with switching to Ricoh. cmr -- Debian 'Etch' - Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: laser printer that is very reliable that runs well under debian.....
Michael Fothergill schrieb: Dear folks, I bought a Samsung ML-2510 laser printer a while ago and drove it under Debian Etch and now Lenny. It seems to have developed a fault of some sort. The manufacturer says that I can run diagnostic software under either Linux (so it says) or MSWindows that might give me a hint as to why it is freezing up. I don't think it is a paper jam. I could mess around with this but I am very busy. So very busy that it is cheaper in time and money to simply buy a new printer to solve the problem. The printer cost me $100 or so. If I spent e.g. $1000 on a printer solely with the intent of finding one that is very reliable that Lenny will drive well and smell malfunctions and diagnose what they are really well (better still the printer itself has a display on it that gives copious details of any error on it indepedently of the operating system that is driving it that anyone could understand quickly), what printer would you recommend? Hi Michael, I bought a Brothzer HL5270DN printer 2 years ago. Its a network connected printer for small workgroups and i installed the printer on diefferent computers with different OS. There was Debian AMD64 unstable, Debian i686 stable and also Windows XP. Sometimes I had some trouble with fonts when the original CUPS-driver was changed a lot. Another possibility is to use the original Brother PPD-File which is provided at the Brother support website. Please dont aks for newer printer models, I have no experience with them. regards, Markus I am beginning to understand why people buy printers from Xerox etc. Regards Michael Fothergill _ The John Lewis Clearance - save up to 50% with FREE delivery http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/101719806/direct/01/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
laser printer that is very reliable that runs well under debian.....
Dear folks, I bought a Samsung ML-2510 laser printer a while ago and drove it under Debian Etch and now Lenny. It seems to have developed a fault of some sort. The manufacturer says that I can run diagnostic software under either Linux (so it says) or MSWindows that might give me a hint as to why it is freezing up. I don't think it is a paper jam. I could mess around with this but I am very busy. So very busy that it is cheaper in time and money to simply buy a new printer to solve the problem. The printer cost me $100 or so. If I spent e.g. $1000 on a printer solely with the intent of finding one that is very reliable that Lenny will drive well and smell malfunctions and diagnose what they are really well (better still the printer itself has a display on it that gives copious details of any error on it indepedently of the operating system that is driving it that anyone could understand quickly), what printer would you recommend? I am beginning to understand why people buy printers from Xerox etc. Regards Michael Fothergill _ The John Lewis Clearance - save up to 50% with FREE delivery http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/101719806/direct/01/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: laser printer that is very reliable that runs well under debian.....
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 12:21 AM, Michael Fothergill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear folks, I bought a Samsung ML-2510 laser printer a while ago and drove it under Debian Etch and now Lenny. It seems to have developed a fault of some sort. The manufacturer says that I can run diagnostic software under either Linux (so it says) or MSWindows that might give me a hint as to why it is freezing up. I don't think it is a paper jam. I could mess around with this but I am very busy. So very busy that it is cheaper in time and money to simply buy a new printer to solve the problem. The printer cost me $100 or so. If I spent e.g. $1000 on a printer solely with the intent of finding one that is very reliable that Lenny will drive well and smell malfunctions and diagnose what they are really well (better still the printer itself has a display on it that gives copious details of any error on it indepedently of the operating system that is driving it that anyone could understand quickly), what printer would you recommend? I am beginning to understand why people buy printers from Xerox etc. At a glance, it looks like Samsung ML-2510 should be a Linux-friendly printer. You might want to check this, http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Samsung-ML-2510 -- Regards, Mohd Irwan Jamaluddin Web: http://www.irwan.name/ Blog: http://blog.irwan.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: laser printer that is very reliable that runs well under debian.....
Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear folks, I bought a Samsung ML-2510 laser printer a while ago and drove it under Debian Etch and now Lenny. It seems to have developed a fault of some sort. The manufacturer says that I can run diagnostic software under either Linux (so it says) or MSWindows that might give me a hint as to why it is freezing up. I don't think it is a paper jam. I could mess around with this but I am very busy. So very busy that it is cheaper in time and money to simply buy a new printer to solve the problem. The printer cost me $100 or so. If I spent e.g. $1000 on a printer solely with the intent of finding one that is very reliable that Lenny will drive well and smell malfunctions and diagnose what they are really well (better still the printer itself has a display on it that gives copious details of any error on it indepedently of the operating system that is driving it that anyone could understand quickly), what printer would you recommend? I am beginning to understand why people buy printers from Xerox etc. Regards Michael Fothergill My experience with Xerox is that they are overpriced and finicky. HP is not my favorite brand, but they do have good linux support now. They get credit for having some of the very best laser printers in the early days, although I can't say anything about today. Still I would give them consideration, since the linux drivers are mostly open source and mostly free. Or at least widely available, including Debian support. Mark Allums -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
