> You can use the HP Color LaserJet 1600/2500/2600 and > HP Business Inkjet 1200/2800 series of printers. You > can find support for these printers almost anywhere > business office printer supplies are sold. > > I'm actually researching these printers for Solaris > projects so if you have an issue with them, let me > know.
No way, shape or form will an hp color LaserJet 2500 work with (Open)Solaris. You can forget it. We've tried every incantation of lpadmin imaginable, Solaris's PPD files, hp's PPD file, even the "hpijs" filters, generic PS... no way! The best we've been able to come up with is some of the applications, like Star/OpenOffice to print half-decently, but with screwed up margins. Mozilla regularly prints garbled output, and the margins are always screwed up, no matter what one does. I'm not sure if it's actually a crappy PS level 3 implementation in the printer, or if the PS filter in Solaris is very poor, but we have determined that Windows and OS X print just fine to the device using both PCL and PS drivers. But wait, there's more! We have had a support case open with Sun for the last 8 months about Solaris completely locking up during printing if the printer is connected via the parallel cable directly to the print server. And just when you think it couldn't get any worse, Solaris 10 6/06 doesn't even recognize the parallel port on systems we've tested him on. /devices/isa/...lp at 378:ecpp0 entry is missing in Solaris 10 6/06 on i86pc. This message posted from opensolaris.org
