Re: Printer brand recommendations
Beco, 11.09.2013: Please, anyone knows about Epson m105, and Samsung ml_2165w ? I see that you've already bought an Epson printer, but just for the record... I have a Samsung ML-2165 black-and-white laser printer that seems to work okay with Debian wheezy. However, the necessary ppd file is not in Debian (yet) so one needs to get it from http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=696240 (I imagine the wireless version ML-2165W would work fine too.) -- 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/20130925204616.ga14...@cs.utexas.edu
Re: Printer brand recommendations
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 7:30 PM, Beco r...@beco.cc wrote: Hi guys, Thank you all for your valuable information and help! I just bought a black-only EPSON M105 inkjet printer, with WIFI. It printed perfectly! No cables needed, no CDs, nothing. Just energy, and the WPS botton to connect to my router, find out the IP address, and added as socket://192.10.10.122:9100 Happy user now! :) Thanks again, Beco As one might expect of a system designed by vendors to make security easier, WPS is very flawed, and a security risk. http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Wi-Fi-Protected-Setup-made-easier-to-brute-force-Update-1401822.html http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/01/hands-on-hacking-wifi-protected-setup-with-reaver/
Re: Printer brand recommendations
As one might expect of a system designed by vendors to make security easier, WPS is very flawed, and a security risk. http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Wi-Fi-Protected-Setup-made-easier-to-brute-force-Update-1401822.html http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/01/hands-on-hacking-wifi-protected-setup-with-reaver/ Hi Kelly, Sure, but you can just use it and then go back to the router configuration page and disable it again! ;) Also, I forgot to mention that you need to install: $ apt-get install lsb And download and install the driver epson-201215w from: http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Epson/Epson-M105_Series (Just for the record) Thanks! Beco -- Dr Beco A.I. researcher Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. (H. Jackson Brown Jr.) -- 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/caluyw2x7x5lze3_dm5pbounma_1qc4qzzw2glj-y5gp42z_...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Printer brand recommendations
On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 11:56:23PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: Short version: Brother doesn't support linux. I'm considering Lexmark. I too am looking for a B+W laser printer. I just got a Brother HL 5450 to replace a 5150 I had. It fails to print some pages, and I'm sending it back because Brother says they do not provide phone support for Linux. They used to have an email address for linux, but a query there produced no answer. It's supposed to be postscript compatible; since there are issues I wonder if that's in software rather than hardware. I've had good results with Brother BW laser printers, and many linux distributions use the same CUPS software that Apple uses under OSX to manage printing (and released under a sufficiently free license for Debian). It's generally true that you don't get much vendor support for Linux, hence the need to learn a little about the subject and to haunt (or at least google) the relevant mailing lists. Greeetings, Joel I'm considering Lexmark now; I used to have one of their printers and the quality of their support impressed me. I switched because I was hoping to need less support! They seem to support linux, as well as many other OS's. I got an HP inkjet that I never was able to get to work, despite talking to tech support. It was a network printer than seemed to bring its network interface down when it slipped and it wouldn't come back up without a power cycle. Perhaps I'm overgeneralizing, but it soured me on HP. Maybe I'll try a color laser, though Consumer Reports says they don't have good print quality for photos. -- Joel Roth -- 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/20130911061832.GB5375@sprite
Re: Printer brand recommendations
On 2013-09-10, Ross Boylan rossboy...@stanfordalumni.org wrote: --001a11c2be66bf88eb04e60200cd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Short version: Brother doesn't support linux. I'm considering Lexmark. I too am looking for a B+W laser printer. I just got a Brother HL 5450 to replace a 5150 I had. It fails to print some pages, and I'm sending it back because Brother says they do not provide phone support for Linux. They used to have an email address for linux, but a query there produced no answer. It's supposed to be postscript compatible; since there are issues I wonder if that's in software rather than hardware. I have an HL5450 running well under Squeeze amd64. Perhaps you haven't jumped through all the installation hoops: Download debs for LPR driver and cupswrapper driver for HL-5450DN from http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/download_prn.html#HL-5450DN%20/%20HL-5450DNT # dpkg -i --force-all hl5450dnlpr-3.0.0-1.i386.deb # dpkg -i --force-all hl5450dncupswrapper-3.0.0-1.i386.deb It also requires ia32-libs or lib32stdc++ packages to be installed. Then it can be used as a normal cups printer. It defaulted to paper size A4. This can be changed to Letter by # /opt/brother/Printers/HL5450DN/lpd/brprintconflsr3 -pt LT and editing /etc/cups/ppd/HL5450DN.ppd: *DefaultPageSize: A4 *DefaultPageSize: Letter Command line options for duplex are: Duplex=None or DuplexNoTumble or DuplexTumble Command line option for printing labels correctly is BrMediaType=THICK -- 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/slrnl30q9r.8rf.alanjg@archduke.router
Re: Printer brand recommendations
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 5:59 AM, Alan Greenberger ala...@ptd.net wrote: On 2013-09-10, Ross Boylan rossboy...@stanfordalumni.org wrote: --001a11c2be66bf88eb04e60200cd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Short version: Brother doesn't support linux. I'm considering Lexmark. I too am looking for a B+W laser printer. I just got a Brother HL 5450 to replace a 5150 I had. It fails to print some pages, and I'm sending it back because Brother says they do not provide phone support for Linux. They used to have an email address for linux, but a query there produced no answer. It's supposed to be postscript compatible; since there are issues I wonder if that's in software rather than hardware. I have an HL5450 running well under Squeeze amd64. Perhaps you haven't jumped through all the installation hoops: I definitely have not. I wasn't wild about having only 32 bit drivers and, since the printer claims to provide postscript compatibility, it didn't seem to me that should be necessary. I guess maybe some of the postscript support is in the software, not the hardware. It seemed to have trouble with graphics (it would spit out a page with a few lines of postscript code and then many blank pages), though plain text documents often worked. At any rate, I don't really want a printer for which the manufacturer will not provide phone support. So I sent it back, and let Brother know why I was doing that with the pithy no support = no sale. Ross
Re: Printer brand recommendations
Thanks, guys. John, this 2 HP became my priorities for now. Please, anyone knows about Epson m105, and Samsung ml_2165w ? Thanks, Beco On 10 Sep 2013 08:04, John Lindsay jcl...@sentex.net wrote: On 09/09/13 01:48 PM, Beco wrote: Hi guys, Please allow me to revive this thread. (Let me know if its better to start a new one) I'm in need of help to find a new printer. My current printer (Samsung SCX4200 stopped working since Wheezy upgrade. I already asked here about the issue and tried to correct it with no success.) Now, its very tricky to find a good gnu-linux/debian compatible Also, in my reach, I found for now three I'm willing to buy. HP LaserJet Pro P1102w Black White laser printer, max. 600x600 dpi, works Mostly SCORE: 2 penguins Recommended Driver: foo2zjs-z2 (Home page) Generic Instructions: CUPS, LPD, LPRng, PPR, PDQ, no spooler Do you have any information and/or recommendation regarding this printers? Do you suggest any other similar that I might try to find in stores nearby? (Preferable laser / wifi. Color not needed.) Thank you! Beco I have had the HP Laserjet pro P1102w for about 1.5 years. Installed easily into whatever variety of linux I decide to use (primary debian 6.0) but 2nd computer could have any distro put on it. Wireless worked great right out of the box. I recently took it out of service and replaced it with an HP Laserjet Pro P1606DN simply because I wanted duplex printing. I lost the wireless with this one but it integrated nicely on my wireless router and works fine. As to cartridge prices -- $99 for a cartridge for this unit from a local store but from an online supplier of re-filled/re manufactured toner cartridges $40 (Canadian). Forget about brother -- had one and was totally disappointed in its ability to integrate with Linus. YMMV John
Re: Printer brand recommendations
Hi guys, Thank you all for your valuable information and help! I just bought a black-only EPSON M105 inkjet printer, with WIFI. It printed perfectly! No cables needed, no CDs, nothing. Just energy, and the WPS botton to connect to my router, find out the IP address, and added as socket://192.10.10.122:9100 Happy user now! :) Thanks again, Beco On 11 September 2013 17:23, Beco r...@beco.cc wrote: Thanks, guys. John, this 2 HP became my priorities for now. Please, anyone knows about Epson m105, and Samsung ml_2165w ? Thanks, Beco On 10 Sep 2013 08:04, John Lindsay jcl...@sentex.net wrote: On 09/09/13 01:48 PM, Beco wrote: Hi guys, Please allow me to revive this thread. (Let me know if its better to start a new one) I'm in need of help to find a new printer. My current printer (Samsung SCX4200 stopped working since Wheezy upgrade. I already asked here about the issue and tried to correct it with no success.) Now, its very tricky to find a good gnu-linux/debian compatible Also, in my reach, I found for now three I'm willing to buy. HP LaserJet Pro P1102w Black White laser printer, max. 600x600 dpi, works Mostly SCORE: 2 penguins Recommended Driver: foo2zjs-z2 (Home page) Generic Instructions: CUPS, LPD, LPRng, PPR, PDQ, no spooler Do you have any information and/or recommendation regarding this printers? Do you suggest any other similar that I might try to find in stores nearby? (Preferable laser / wifi. Color not needed.) Thank you! Beco I have had the HP Laserjet pro P1102w for about 1.5 years. Installed easily into whatever variety of linux I decide to use (primary debian 6.0) but 2nd computer could have any distro put on it. Wireless worked great right out of the box. I recently took it out of service and replaced it with an HP Laserjet Pro P1606DN simply because I wanted duplex printing. I lost the wireless with this one but it integrated nicely on my wireless router and works fine. As to cartridge prices -- $99 for a cartridge for this unit from a local store but from an online supplier of re-filled/re manufactured toner cartridges $40 (Canadian). Forget about brother -- had one and was totally disappointed in its ability to integrate with Linus. YMMV John -- Dr Beco A.I. researcher Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. (H. Jackson Brown Jr.) -- 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/caluyw2wo6k9xgvsoebd6zuov85l_uvkbgmqyuaembghym1e...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Printer brand recommendations
Short version: Brother doesn't support linux. I'm considering Lexmark. I too am looking for a B+W laser printer. I just got a Brother HL 5450 to replace a 5150 I had. It fails to print some pages, and I'm sending it back because Brother says they do not provide phone support for Linux. They used to have an email address for linux, but a query there produced no answer. It's supposed to be postscript compatible; since there are issues I wonder if that's in software rather than hardware. I'm considering Lexmark now; I used to have one of their printers and the quality of their support impressed me. I switched because I was hoping to need less support! They seem to support linux, as well as many other OS's. I got an HP inkjet that I never was able to get to work, despite talking to tech support. It was a network printer than seemed to bring its network interface down when it slipped and it wouldn't come back up without a power cycle. Perhaps I'm overgeneralizing, but it soured me on HP. Maybe I'll try a color laser, though Consumer Reports says they don't have good print quality for photos.
Re: Printer brand recommendations
On 09 Sep 2013, Ross Boylan wrote: Short version: Brother doesn't support linux. I'm considering Lexmark. I too am looking for a B+W laser printer. I just got a Brother HL 5450 to replace a 5150 I had. It fails to print some pages, and I'm sending it back because Brother says they do not provide phone support for Linux. They used to have an email address for linux, but a query there produced no answer. It's supposed to be postscript compatible; since there are issues I wonder if that's in software rather than hardware. I recently bought a Brother 5250DN second-hand for 60 ukp, which was in like-new condition. It has both networking and postscript capabilities. I first used the (quite old) driver for this model available on the Brother site. It worked well at first but then large images came out distorted, with an error message. Following a comment on the net I tried the pxlmono driver and that is working well. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- 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/20130910074453.gn...@arcadia.home.gateway
Re: Printer brand recommendations
On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 11:56:23PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: Maybe I'll try a color laser, though Consumer Reports says they don't have good print quality for photos. Maybe a: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dye-sublimation_printer :) Also, I think the paper quality is an issue for photo quality printing. Unless you're doing heaps it's probably cheaper to go to those photo print shops, although anything larger than a 6x4 starts to get bit pricey. -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. --- Malcolm X -- 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/20130910083720.GC14576@tal
Re: Printer brand recommendations
In data lunedì 9 settembre 2013 14:48:18, Beco ha scritto: I'm using this site to see compatibility. http://www.openprinting.org/printers I think openprinting.org is terribly outdated. I prefer googling for printer model name linux and seeing what people ask in the forums, but please note that I'm skilled enough in linux administration to distinguish real printer problems posts from users that do not know how to configure it properly, so that method might not be ideal for everyone. That being said, I use a Brother inkjet printer and it works perfectly with Brother provided drivers (proprietary). The advantage is the very low cost of compatible ink cartdridges (about €1/each). -- 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/1576415.vKeZLs4u0d@fx
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Hi guys, Please allow me to revive this thread. (Let me know if its better to start a new one) I'm in need of help to find a new printer. My current printer (Samsung SCX4200 stopped working since Wheezy upgrade. I already asked here about the issue and tried to correct it with no success.) Now, its very tricky to find a good gnu-linux/debian compatible printer. My experience tells me to first look the stores, to see what they have. And only then to look if its compatible. I'm using this site to see compatibility. http://www.openprinting.org/printers Is this a reliable source of information? Do you have any other (pratical) suggestion? Also, in my reach, I found for now three I'm willing to buy. HP LaserJet Pro P1102w Black White laser printer, max. 600x600 dpi, works Mostly SCORE: 2 penguins Recommended Driver: foo2zjs-z2 (Home page) Generic Instructions: CUPS, LPD, LPRng, PPR, PDQ, no spooler Samsung ML-2165W (This site does not have it! RED FLAG!) Epson M105 Series Color inkjet printer (WRONG, its BLACK only here), max. 5760x1440 dpi, works Perfectly SCORE: 3 penguins. Recommended Driver: epson-201215w (Home page, Driver packages: x86 32 bit: 1.0.0 (RPM for LSB 3.2) (Signed), 1.0.0 (DEB for LSB 3.2) (Signed), x86 64 bit: 1.0.0 (RPM for LSB 3.2) (Signed), 1.0.0 (DEB for LSB 3.2) (Signed) (How to install)) Generic Instructions: CUPS, LPD, LPRng, PPR, PDQ, no spooler Do you have any information and/or recommendation regarding this printers? Do you suggest any other similar that I might try to find in stores nearby? (Preferable laser / wifi. Color not needed.) Thank you! Beco On 29 November 2012 17:46, Russell L. Harris rlhar...@broadcaster.org wrote: * Tyler D tdo...@gmail.com [121129 19:30]: On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk wrote: On 26 Nov 2012, Curt Howland wrote: ... At least for my specific printer, Brother has put out Linux drivers... Recently I picked up a close-out special -- a Brother laser printer with Brother's Postscript-3 emulation built-in. I did not immediately find a CUPS Postscript Brother driver which works with for the printer, but it took only a half hour of experimentation to discover that one of the HP Postscipt drivers works very well. I since have found a Brother driver for the specific model, but I have not bothered to install it, because the HP Postscript driver works so well. RH -- 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/20121129194636.gc2...@gospelbroadcasting.org -- Dr Beco A.I. researcher Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. (H. Jackson Brown Jr.) -- 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/caluyw2yvadptye5cmqhn9gtaasoggqzp36fzixevmqx-hgu...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Printer brand recommendations
On Mon, 9 Sep 2013 14:48:18 -0300 Beco r...@beco.cc wrote: Hello Beco, I'm in need of help to find a new printer. HP. They have, by far (IMO, at least), the best Linux support of any of the printer manufacturers. -- Regards _ / ) The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent You only see me for the clothes that I wear Public Image - Public Image Ltd signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Printer brand recommendations
On 09/09/13 22:32, David Christensen wrote: On 09/09/13 10:48, Beco wrote: I'm in need of help to find a new printer. I've had good luck with HP LaserJet printers. I currently own a HP LaserJet P2055dn and it integrates nicely with Windows XP, Debian Squeeze, and Debian Wheezy: http://www.openprinting.org/printers http://www.openprinting.org/printer/HP/HP-LaserJet_P2055dn I bough one 1.5 years ago to work with my Wheezy box: so far, so good ! hth, Jerome HTH, David -- 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/522e3ba7.4050...@rezozer.net
Re: Printer brand recommendations
On 09/09/13 14:42, ken wrote: I've used Epson with success, but won't another one. The cost of the cartridges is so high, it's like I'm buying the printer over and over again every year. HP cartridges are also very expensive -- $100+. So: 1. I bought a black-and-white printer (1 cartridge), rather than color (4 cartridges). 2. I buy high capacity generic cartridges (~$30). HTH, David -- 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/522e48bf.9040...@holgerdanske.com
Re: Printer brand recommendations
On 09/09/2013 04:32 PM David Christensen wrote: On 09/09/13 10:48, Beco wrote: I'm in need of help to find a new printer. I've had good luck with HP LaserJet printers. I currently own a HP LaserJet P2055dn and it integrates nicely with Windows XP, Debian Squeeze, and Debian Wheezy: http://www.openprinting.org/printers http://www.openprinting.org/printer/HP/HP-LaserJet_P2055dn HTH, David I've used Epson with success, but won't another one. The cost of the cartridges is so high, it's like I'm buying the printer over and over again every year. They got taken to court by a class action suit and lost, but the award to the plaintiffs was a couple coupons to spend on their cartridges. :^\ My next printer is probably going to be an HP. To find out which printers work with linux, see http://linuxmanagers.blogspot.com/2010/08/which-printers-work-on-linux.html. -- 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/522e40b5.3070...@mousecar.com
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On 09/09/13 10:48, Beco wrote: I'm in need of help to find a new printer. I've had good luck with HP LaserJet printers. I currently own a HP LaserJet P2055dn and it integrates nicely with Windows XP, Debian Squeeze, and Debian Wheezy: http://www.openprinting.org/printers http://www.openprinting.org/printer/HP/HP-LaserJet_P2055dn HTH, David -- 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/522e3053.7070...@holgerdanske.com
Re: Printer brand recommendations
On 09/09/2013 06:16 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 09/09/13 14:42, ken wrote: I've used Epson with success, but won't another one. The cost of the cartridges is so high, it's like I'm buying the printer over and over again every year. HP cartridges are also very expensive -- $100+. So: 1. I bought a black-and-white printer (1 cartridge), rather than color (4 cartridges). 2. I buy high capacity generic cartridges (~$30). HTH, David Another thread that's been running on one of the lists, where someone in Switzerland was looking for a printer recommendation, pointed out that HP printers are no longer the Sherman tanks they used to be, and that they may no longer be built to last; also that HP does not support any product after they stopped making it for five years. Not at all-- you may not even find a manual. (OTOH, I can still get replacement toner units for a 12 year old LaserJet 2200dn, even tho I can't get any info from HP about it.) I also have an Epson all-in-one, a WP-4530. It's quick, it prints, copies, faxes, scans, and has usb, Ethernet and wireless interfaces. (And a phone connection for fax.) Does duplex, of course. I do a fair amount of printing, and I don't need new cartridges very often. It uses four cartridges, CMYK, so if you mostly print black, that will be the only one you need to replace. The color is very good, both from the net and scanned in. For BW images, it's about on a par with the LaserJet. And Epson has Linux drivers on their website for all their printers and scanners, in both deb and rpm formats. Someone on the other list found the WP-4530 for $189 on Amazon. I have no financial or other interest in Epson. --doug -- Blessed are the peacemakers..for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M.Greeley -- 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/522e629f.7040...@optonline.net
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On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 03:16:31PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: On 09/09/13 14:42, ken wrote: I've used Epson with success, but won't another one. The cost of the cartridges is so high, it's like I'm buying the printer over and over again every year. HP cartridges are also very expensive -- $100+. So: Yeah, but they'll last about 10x longer? (Presuming we are talking about laser cartridges and not ink.) -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. --- Malcolm X -- 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/20130910001500.GC4609@tal
Re: Printer brand recommendations
Beco wrote at 2013-09-09 12:48 -0500: I'm using this site to see compatibility. http://www.openprinting.org/printers Is this a reliable source of information? Do you have any other (pratical) suggestion? Regarding openprinting.org: many/all the forum links refer to a domain that does not exist, registration has been disabled or is broken (depending on which of the ~3 possible registration URLs you try), and at least some printer information is incorrect. I know of one specific printer (Lexmark E360dn) that is marked as a color printer working perfectly but is neither. I left a comment about this in the past, but the comment is gone now without an updated entry. Here is the link that perhaps should work for registration: https://identity.linuxfoundation.org/user/register. But I get a server error when trying to login using those credentials after successfully registering. This site should be taken down or fixed. If anyone wants to, you could send a message to the Linux Foundation about the site. See http://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/contact for contact information; you will notice an address openprinting (at) linuxfoundation dot org for correspondence regarding the OpenPrinting site. I might try sending a message sometime. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Printer brand recommendations
Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net writes: On 09/09/2013 06:16 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 09/09/13 14:42, ken wrote: I've used Epson with success, but won't another one. The cost of the cartridges is so high, it's like I'm buying the printer over and over again every year. HP cartridges are also very expensive -- $100+. So: 1. I bought a black-and-white printer (1 cartridge), rather than color (4 cartridges). 2. I buy high capacity generic cartridges (~$30). HTH, David Another thread that's been running on one of the lists, where someone in Switzerland was looking for a printer recommendation, pointed out that HP printers are no longer the Sherman tanks they used to be, and that they may no longer be built to last; also that HP does not support any product after they stopped making it for five years. Not at all-- you may not even find a manual. (OTOH, I can still get replacement toner units for a 12 year old LaserJet 2200dn, even tho I can't get any info from HP about it.) I also have an Epson all-in-one, a WP-4530. It's quick, it prints, copies, faxes, scans, and has usb, Ethernet and wireless interfaces. (And a phone connection for fax.) Does duplex, of course. I do a fair amount of printing, and I don't need new cartridges very often. It uses four cartridges, CMYK, so if you mostly print black, that will be the only one you need to replace. The color is very good, both from the net and scanned in. For BW images, it's about on a par with the LaserJet. And Epson has Linux drivers on their website for all their printers and scanners, in both deb and rpm formats. Someone on the other list found the WP-4530 for $189 on Amazon. I have no financial or other interest in Epson. I was a strong HP fan for years, to the point that when a printer died I would only look at HP replacements. After a couple of short-lived HPs in a row, I broadened my horizons to take at least a token look at other brands -- and brought home an Epson Workforce 645 all-in-one which is behaving like HPs used to. It's reliable, the cartridges last a long time, the tray holds a *lot* of paper... just a good piece of equipment. -- 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/1bob812w6f@snowball.wb.pfeifferfamily.net
Re: Printer brand recommendations
On 9/10/13, Beco r...@beco.cc wrote: I'm in need of help to find a new printer. My current printer (Samsung SCX4200 stopped working since Wheezy upgrade. I already asked here about the issue and tried to correct it with no success.) You could perhaps increase the quality of suggestions by (if you are able) being more specific about what you want to achieve with the printer (volume, color, portability etc). I'm using this site to see compatibility. http://www.openprinting.org/printers Is this a reliable source of information? Do you have any other (pratical) suggestion? I have used openprinting a lot. I find it very useful. We've had very good success with second hand Lexmark t522 b/w laser, however they are getting a little long in the tooth now. Awesomely low per-page ink cost. The only trick might have been extracting the .PPD file from the windows driver. For postscript printers, it's pretty much a guarantee you can get it to work by locating the PPD. Had a bit rougher experience with second hand Ricoh c420 printers; every about 30 pages, it goes through a 1.5minute calibration. Ink costs are fine, and it's a color laser. Good luck Zenaan -- 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/caosgnst6hsoty+1r0cgwohfv1-aqnzdrbro_n8fa+n-bzr0...@mail.gmail.com
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Beco [2013-09-09 14:48:18 -03:00] wrote: Now, its very tricky to find a good gnu-linux/debian compatible printer. I think the keywords for compatibility are (1) PostScript and (2) EtherNet connection. I'd start with those. pgpAYDqSM_Zwh.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Printer brand recommendations
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk wrote: On 26 Nov 2012, Curt Howland wrote: Hi. I have a HP inkjet printer, PSC2100 from 2003, which still works fine but something in Debian has changed. It used to print graphics and photographs very well. But a year or so ago graphics stopped being nice and started being grainy and speckled, to the point where the names of roads can't be read in a print of a Google Map. I thought it was just driver confusion at first, but this has been happening on multiple systems, across more than one reinstall. Yet when I use Windows, it works perfectly. It's bad enough and obviously not going to get fixed, that I would like suggestions for a replacement printer/scanner. Epsom? Cannon? What brand do people use that works well with xsane and CUPS? Thank you, Curt- I always use lasers and a separate scanner so this is probably not what you are looking for. Currently I had a Brother and a Samsung, both of which work very well. I'm sure CUPS would work with both but I prefer lprng + magicfilter. The driver from the Brother site used to work for me but for some reason it stopped; however, the ljet4 driver provided with magicfilter is fine. AC I too always use lasers and a separate scanner. I've had good experience with my Brother printer, HL-4150CDN. At least for my specific printer, Brother has put out Linux drivers... I *think* I've tried/used them in the past, but currently I do not since the default KUbuntu 12.04 desktop allowed me to easily configure it. One kwirk though: During the printer configuration wizard thinggy, I had to specify that the model of the printer is a HL-4050 or something, but seems to work totally fine. --Tyler -- 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/CAH3rtgCS8mzA8eg33Bj0hV6VV=eedstcqevq3xod82zzmxk...@mail.gmail.com
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* Tyler D tdo...@gmail.com [121129 19:30]: On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk wrote: On 26 Nov 2012, Curt Howland wrote: ... At least for my specific printer, Brother has put out Linux drivers... Recently I picked up a close-out special -- a Brother laser printer with Brother's Postscript-3 emulation built-in. I did not immediately find a CUPS Postscript Brother driver which works with for the printer, but it took only a half hour of experimentation to discover that one of the HP Postscipt drivers works very well. I since have found a Brother driver for the specific model, but I have not bothered to install it, because the HP Postscript driver works so well. RH -- 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/20121129194636.gc2...@gospelbroadcasting.org
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On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 04:32:59PM -0800, Gary Roach wrote: On 11/26/2012 07:10 AM, Curt Howland wrote: Hi. I have a HP inkjet printer, PSC2100 from 2003, which still works fine but something in Debian has changed. It used to print graphics and photographs very well. But a year or so ago graphics stopped being nice and started being grainy and speckled, to the point where the names of roads can't be read in a print of a Google Map. I thought it was just driver confusion at first, but this has been happening on multiple systems, across more than one reinstall. Yet when I use Windows, it works perfectly. It's bad enough and obviously not going to get fixed, that I would like suggestions for a replacement printer/scanner. Epsom? Cannon? What brand do people use that works well with xsane and CUPS? Thank you, Curt- I have an HP Officejet Pro 8600 that I like a lot. HP supports linux. Epson doesn't. If you uses Sqeeze you can download the drivers from HP. If you use Wheezy the drivers are include with Cups. The HP ink is relatively inexpensive and the printer is really fast. It's a 4 in one which is nice. I have an HP Officejet 5610 All-in-One (printer/scanner/fax), and can also confirm, HP printers work great with my Debian systems. ./tony -- http://www.tonybaldwin.me all tony, all the time! 3F330C6E signature.asc Description: Digital signature
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On 26 Nov 2012, Curt Howland wrote: Hi. I have a HP inkjet printer, PSC2100 from 2003, which still works fine but something in Debian has changed. It used to print graphics and photographs very well. But a year or so ago graphics stopped being nice and started being grainy and speckled, to the point where the names of roads can't be read in a print of a Google Map. I thought it was just driver confusion at first, but this has been happening on multiple systems, across more than one reinstall. Yet when I use Windows, it works perfectly. It's bad enough and obviously not going to get fixed, that I would like suggestions for a replacement printer/scanner. Epsom? Cannon? What brand do people use that works well with xsane and CUPS? Thank you, Curt- I always use lasers and a separate scanner so this is probably not what you are looking for. Currently I had a Brother and a Samsung, both of which work very well. I'm sure CUPS would work with both but I prefer lprng + magicfilter. The driver from the Brother site used to work for me but for some reason it stopped; however, the ljet4 driver provided with magicfilter is fine. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http://www.skepticviews.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell -- 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/2012112718.ga17...@acampbell.org.uk
Printer brand recommendations
Hi. I have a HP inkjet printer, PSC2100 from 2003, which still works fine but something in Debian has changed. It used to print graphics and photographs very well. But a year or so ago graphics stopped being nice and started being grainy and speckled, to the point where the names of roads can't be read in a print of a Google Map. I thought it was just driver confusion at first, but this has been happening on multiple systems, across more than one reinstall. Yet when I use Windows, it works perfectly. It's bad enough and obviously not going to get fixed, that I would like suggestions for a replacement printer/scanner. Epsom? Cannon? What brand do people use that works well with xsane and CUPS? Thank you, Curt- -- 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/CAGY8_s0VWW2Cj6KBsCdiA0QNm5bCZLmVCD9qcUw-Up9CK=k...@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 10:10 -0500, Curt Howland wrote: Hi. I have a HP inkjet printer, PSC2100 from 2003, which still works fine but something in Debian has changed. It used to print graphics and photographs very well. But a year or so ago graphics stopped being nice and started being grainy and speckled, to the point where the names of roads can't be read in a print of a Google Map. I thought it was just driver confusion at first, but this has been happening on multiple systems, across more than one reinstall. Yet when I use Windows, it works perfectly. It's bad enough and obviously not going to get fixed, that I would like suggestions for a replacement printer/scanner. Epsom? Cannon? What brand do people use that works well with xsane and CUPS? Thank you, Curt- Even if a version of Gutenprint did work for my much older printer, I could solve issues by using other versions of Gutenprint, with different settings. -- 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/1353944126.2508.385.camel@q
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On Monday 26 November 2012 15:10:59 Curt Howland wrote: Epsom? Cannon? What brand do people use that works well with xsane and CUPS? I use Samsung. I don't make heavy demands on it but have been pleased with what I have used it to print. I have an ML1510, still going strong, but have set up Samsungs for other people who have been happy with teh resluts. Samsung supplies a driver package - Splix - as does HP. So CUPS is very straightforward. And I use Xsane and have no problems printing the scans. Lisi -- 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/201211261555.48191.lisi.re...@gmail.com
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On 11/26/2012 07:10 AM, Curt Howland wrote: Hi. I have a HP inkjet printer, PSC2100 from 2003, which still works fine but something in Debian has changed. It used to print graphics and photographs very well. But a year or so ago graphics stopped being nice and started being grainy and speckled, to the point where the names of roads can't be read in a print of a Google Map. I thought it was just driver confusion at first, but this has been happening on multiple systems, across more than one reinstall. Yet when I use Windows, it works perfectly. It's bad enough and obviously not going to get fixed, that I would like suggestions for a replacement printer/scanner. Epsom? Cannon? What brand do people use that works well with xsane and CUPS? Thank you, Curt- I have an HP Officejet Pro 8600 that I like a lot. HP supports linux. Epson doesn't. If you uses Sqeeze you can download the drivers from HP. If you use Wheezy the drivers are include with Cups. The HP ink is relatively inexpensive and the printer is really fast. It's a 4 in one which is nice. Gary R. -- 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/50b40a3b.90...@verizon.net
Re: Printer brand recommendations
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Monday 26 November 2012, debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org was heard to say: Re: Printer brand recommendations Dear Debian User, The problem was that the default printer driver for the HP PSC2210 is not the HPLIP driver at all. When I changed the printer driver from HP Cups+Gutenprint v5.2.9, which is the default upon CUPS detecting this printer, and instead specified the driver hpcups 3.12.6, the printing cleared up to its former excellence. I'm also going to try hpijs 3.12.6 but I doubt it will be any better, as the ugliness of the Gutenprint driver has been cleaned up. Thank you, Gary Roach, for the suggestion that lead to this discovery. Peace, all, and excellent holidays. Curt- - -- The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom is courage. - - Thucydides -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iFcDBQFQtDc8tk9X6NaR4akRCCQYAP9pbonV0Pb/P6chty0jwujU2hB8yAp0MGE2 hf5nBODPxwD+Kh2W84DPxeaL/HpBCMIki7S3nCJAxd0YBBzRGL3KpfM= =Z2lg -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- 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/201211262245.04927.howl...@priss.com
