UNIX admin wrote:
>>In theory, any printer that has a PPD (PostScript
>>Printer Description)
>>file should work on Solaris.
>
>
> Yes, but only in theory. For example, we have a hp color LaserJet 2500L
> PCL6/PS capable printer, are using the PPD from hp that came on the CD, and
> can not get the printer to print correctly under Solaris no matter what we
> try.
I'm sorry to hear that your experience with the Solaris Print System has
not been good :-(
All I can say is that for all the printers that I have tried it has
worked mainly okay (with a few quirks). I can't speak for its use with a
"HP color LaserJet 2500L PCL6/PS" but on a big HP Colour LaserJet I used
to use it worked great; and images where okay. Did you try configuring
in via 'printmgr' and using the PPD recommended file for it that comes
with solaris?
> But send a print job from Apple OS X, it prints out beautifully. What to do?
>
> Well, after almost three years and a whole new set of toners, we're about
> ready to give up on getting that printer and/or Solaris to work. So now we're
> shopping around for a new printer.
>
> Needless to say, we've lost all confidence in PPD files and Solaris's ability
> to print reliably to a PS printer; did however visit the Solaris HCL, only to
> find one single printer listed as working there.
>
> It'd be nice if there were a list of Solaris ready printers on the HCL.
As the number of printer types out there in the field is huge there is
no way that any one person/company could try them all. So maybe this
mail alias would be a good place for people to say which printer types
do or do not work on Solaris (9, 10, 11 & OpenSolaris), saying how well
they work or what's wrong with them, and what their experience with them
is. Then Sun could capture that information for use by its
customers/users on its website and the opensolaris web site. So let them
know! For example ...
Manufacturer | Model & PPD | Working | Comment
| | Status |
-------------|---------------------|---------|----------------------------
Kyocera | KM-2530 | |
| foomatic/postscript | mostly | messes up headers on
| | | printed web pages
where 'working status' might be something like:
perfectly/mostly/poorly/not-at-all; the printer drivers on
www.linuxprinting.org are graded in a similar way.
Paul
