printer advice

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Seann Clark wrote:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Thursday 14 August 2008, François Patte wrote:
>>  
>>> Bonjour,
>>>
>>> I need a printer and I found two laser printers available where I am
>>> living now:
>>>
>>> Brother HL-2032
>>> Samsung ML-1630/SEE
>>>
>>>     
>> I cannot testify about the samsung, but Brother has what I would call 
>> excellent linux support, but you will need to get the correct set of 
>> ppd files from their web page.  If this printer isn't there, there is 
>> an email link to their support on the web page, and my query regarding 
>> an HL-2140 I had just bought was answered quickly, competently and 
>> courteously, pointing me at the correct file to download.  Self 
>> extracting, it installed itself in the proper location to be found by 
>> a restart of the cupsd daemon.  Then it was a simple matter of adding 
>> another printer profile at http://localhost:631.
>>
>> HTH.
>>   
> I have just this week set up a Samsung on Fedora 9 with little problem. 
> It wasn't the ML-1630 but it was a CLP-610ND, and for CUPS to play with 
> it, I just needed to grab the ppd and rastertosamsungsplc to the 
> appropriate directories on my system and everything worked wonderfully. 
> Now getting it to work right in Samba... well that was a different story 
> (I don't know Samba well, so it was interesting to get it  to play well 
> with my systems that don't speak CUPS natively.) but support is pretty 
> good on that. Using Samsung, the 'install' program they provide can 
> really hose a linux system though. (NewEgg review was the source of this 
> knowledge, and I didn't even attempt the installer from Samsung)

I set up a Samsung CLP-510 laser under FC5 using Samsung's supplied 
lpr-ng driver.  Worked just fine with cups.  Its even survived that 
machines upgrade to F8.

Samsung now has a UnifiedLinuxDriver for their printers.  The last time 
I noticed it, it was:  20070720172411796_UnifiedLinuxDriver.tar.gz
It may have been updated since then.  I have *not* installed it since my 
previous setup continues to work just fine for me.

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Kevin J. Cummings
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