Hello, On Oct 24 06:41 dwelch91 wrote (shortened): > http://hplip.sourceforge.net/supported_devices/color_laser.html
NO! (Because the answer is not as simple as that ;-) > On 10/24/06, Sabrina Di Marco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd like to know which are the color laserjet totaly compatible > > with Suse Linux SLES 9.0 SP3. Suse Linux Enterprise Server 9 (SLES9) does not include HPLIP at all (because SLES9 is older than HPLIP and our service packs usually do not provide completely new software). If you use software packages which you did not get from our official software sources (our CDs or DVDs or our official software updates) and/or if you use self-compiled software, we normally do not provide support for such software. I.e. you won't get support from us for HPLIP on SLES9. If you don't have any support contract with us regarding your SLES9 system, you are of course totally free to do whatever you like but have a look at http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Printer_Configuration_from_SUSE_LINUX_9.3_on Additionally note that compiling HPLIP on such an old system may lead to whatever difficulties (if it is possible at all). E.g. HPLIP may require whatever newer version of whatever other software (e.g. Python or PyQt) which may be not available for SLES9 (except you also update those software which then may break other stuff on your SLES9 system). But the actual question was not about HPLIP but simply which color LaserJets are "totaly compatible" with SLES9: Regarding plain printing, any PostScript printer is totally compatible with SLES9 because SLES9 uses CUPS as printing system and CUPS works perfectly with any PostScript printer, see http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Purchasing_a_Printer_and_Compatibility Regarding "totally" (what exactly do you mean with "totally"?): For example the printer may provide a connection type (i.e. parallel port, USB, various network connection types, ...) which is not supported under Linux (whatever proprietary stuff) or which cannot work well under Linux (e.g. a half-broken LPD or IPP implementation in a printer's built-in network card or in a third-party printserver-box). Furthermore note that CUPS (at least CUPS version 1.1.x) does not provide feedback from the actual printer (e.g. about toner level, paper out, paper jam, ...). CUPS provides feedback for the print queue (e.g. job is waiting, job is printing) but not for the printer. At the moment there is no generic way in the printing system to check continuosly the printer state. Only when the backend runs (i.e. when a job is actively sent to the printer) there is a communication with the printer but after the job was completely sent to it and then a bit later the printer runs out of paper there is no generic way in the printing system to query the printer state. Regarding CUPS backends see for example our support database http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell Furthermore printer state stuff is very model specific. Each kind of printer models report their state (e.g. online/offline, out of paper/ink/toner, paper jam, ...) in various different ways. Therefore the generic CUPS backends cannot support it. But a special backend made by the manufacturer of the printer could of course provide much more device specific features. In particular for HP printers which are supported by the HPLIP software there is such a backend "hp" and a special user fronted tool "hp-toolbox". But I don't know to what extent the current "hp" backend supports the printer state for each HP color LaserJet and for each of the possible connection types (e.g. parallel port, USB, FireWire, network via built-in HP network card, network via third-party printserver-box, network via (Windows) SMB share, network via LPD protocol, network via IPP protocol, ...). Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5 Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 90409 Nuernberg, Germany WWW: http://www.suse.de/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ HPLIP-Help mailing list HPLIP-Help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hplip-help
