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

["Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com>]

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.

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