Re: [tlug] Becoming Windows Free: Linux Lazer Printers

[Matt Gross <mgrossjp@example.com>]

On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 08:20 +0900, Josh Glover wrote:
> On 01/11/06, Stuart Luppescu <s-luppescu@example.com> wrote:
> 
> > There was some
> > discussion on this list a while ago praising the Samsung ML-1740, but
> > it's not being sold anymore. I think the latest version (maybe the
> > ML-2010) should work well and be affordable. Again, I have no personal
> > experience with this printer.
> 

Does anyone know if the Brother MFC-7820N works well with Linux?

English:
http://www.brother-usa.com/mfc/mfc_detail_AREA=MFC_1&PRODUCTID=MFC7820N.aspx

Japanese:
http://www.brother.co.jp/product/mfc/info/mfc7820n/index.htm

Actually, I just found this website which claims that the printer works
perfectly (left the links above for reference):

http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Brother-MFC-7820N

But further down on the website it says: "Scanner works with sane on
linux over the network with binary drivers. Because the drivers are
binary, it probably works only on x86 systems (AMD and Intel
processors)."

I was considering doing a re-install/upgrade this weekend from Fedora
Core 5 x86 to Fedora Core 6 x86_64.  If I bought that printer, would I
run into problems with the scanner, or is there a way to build a 32 bit
chroot for the x86 binaries to run?


> I have. I think that all of Samsung's personal laser printers should
> be offiically supported by Samsung (i.e. PPD drivers on the CD and
> instructions on how to install the PPDs with CUPS and lpr-ng). The
> Samsungs are great in the bang for your buck department.
> 
> HP also has a pretty thriving officially sanctioned Open Source driver project:
> 
> http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/
> 
> (Don't let the name fool you, hpijs supports laser printers too.)
> 
> Alternatively, as Stuart mentioned and I trimmed, any Postscript
> printer will definitely work with CUPS + ghostscript + foomatic. I
> assume lpr-ng can use the PPDs generated by foomatic as well, but I
> have never tried.
> 
> Cheers,
> Josh
>

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