Modern Inkjets And Linux Support? 13
Clinton Work asks: "There are tons of cheap/high quality inkjet printers on the market,
but all of them use proprietary Windows printer drivers. The older
HP inkjets have Linux drivers but are no longer on the market. Your only option is too choose a more expensive inkjet or a cheap laser printer with postscript support. I have looked at the modern printing software like LPRng and CUPS without any luck. Does anybody have a solution?"
One more note... (Score:1)
BTW, does anyone know a better archive than the one at geocrawler? The index only shows about 25 messages at a time, and the messages themselves don't have prev and next links, and in general there's way too much window dressing "noise" per unit of signal. (I wonder if there are also banner ads. At least I don't waste time downloading them [junkbusters.com].)
That was handy. (Score:1)
Thanks. Useful link added to bookmarks.
Re:www.linuxprinting.org - The database... (Score:1)
There are alternatives (Score:1)
So the next problem is how to change the stuff so the printer understands it. You may want to look at IFHP [astart.com] which was written by the same guy who wrote LPRng. It's quite good at talking different printer languages.
There is also magicfilter which can talk to plenty of printers as well though you often need to collect all the auxiallary programs for it to fully work.
I have a HP printer, and so know of two other programs. They're packaged together as djtools in Debian distribution but I think they're called hpset and djutils or something similar. They help with using the HP PCL.
Re:Deskjet Printers & Linux (Score:1)
Watch out for the HPs!! (Score:1)
If you are unfortunate enough to own one of these, a nice driver [sourceforge.net] (pnm2ppa) has been figured out and you can find it on SourceForge [sourceforge.net]. Actually it isn't really a driver, but rather a print filter that works with GhostScript to print PostScript files.
Re: Modern Inkjets And Linux Support? (Score:1)
Mac InkJets? (Score:1)
Re:One more note... (Score:1)
Most mailing lists I'm interested in are listed at the Mailing list ARChives [theaimsgroup.com] or at The Mail Archive [mail-archive.com] (no relation!).
I'd be interested in learning of some other (non-Geocrawler) sites as well. Geocrawler is too slow and cluttered.
You want gimp-print (Score:2)
That's where the action is. Its success is why the other ghostview drivers have been languishing.
Re: Modern Inkjets And Linux Support? (Score:2)
If the Epson 640 and 740 are still available, they're cheap and work great.
bagh (Score:2)
As we typed character by character, the letter printed onto a sheet of paper. There were no useless CRT monitors, or LCD panels. No eyestrain either.
Instead of worrying about old Inkjet printers, you need to get yourself a good teletype printer and sell your monitor to one of those lazy silicon valley kids.
www.linuxprinting.org - The database... (Score:3)
The database has links to the drivers needed for each printer, or the filters (LPD, CUPS) that are needed.
Here are the color inkjets that are listed to work "perfectly";
Canon - BJC-70, BJC-210, BJC-250, BJC-600, BJC-610, BJC-620, BJC-800, BJC-4000, BJC-4100, BJC-4200, BJC-4300, BJC-4400
Citizen - ProJet IIc
Digital - DECwriter 520ic*
Hewlett Packard - 2000C, 2500C, DesignJet 3500CP, DeskJet 400, DeskJet 420C, DeskJet 500C, DeskJet 540, DeskJet 550C, DeskJet 560C, DeskJet 600, DeskJet 1200C, DeskJet 1600C, DeskJet 1600CM, PaintJet*, PaintJet XL*, PaintJet XL300*
Lexmark - Optra Color 40, Optra Color 45
Olivetti - JP350S*, JP450*, JP470*
Samsung - SI-630A*
Tektronix - 4696*, 4697*
Xerox - DocuPrint C20
Here's another example; a list of Lexmark printers (inkjet or not, perfect or not);
Mostly - 1020 Business, 3000
Partially - 1000, 1100, 2030, 2070, 3200, 5000, 5700, 7000, 7200, Winwriter 400*, Z11, Z51
Paperweight - 1020, 2050, Winwriter 100*, Winwriter 150c*, Winwriter 200*