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The HP Linux Imaging and Printing System

The HP Linux Imaging and Printing System

Posted Dec 9, 2004 8:39 UTC (Thu) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185)
Parent article: The HP Linux Imaging and Printing System

And just when I was in the market for b&w laser printer and wavering
between Brother (who has linux drivers, but closed source) and HP (who
appeared to have nothing much at all). This is making my decision a lot
easier.


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The HP Linux Imaging and Printing System

Posted Dec 9, 2004 9:47 UTC (Thu) by tomsi (subscriber, #2306) [Link]

I have been using linux with HP printers for years. And have never really had any problems.

The HP Linux Imaging and Printing System

Posted Dec 10, 2004 2:34 UTC (Fri) by kberg (subscriber, #4963) [Link]

I own and use a Brother HL-5150D and did not need to use thier drivers. The machine it's connected to runs Fedora Core 2. All I did was connect it to the USB port, import the PPD file from the printer's install CD into Fedora's printer configuration utility and configure it like any other printer. It works great. Duplexing also works great. The printer is available across my home network via CUPS.

If you don't want to bother with importing their PPD file, the generic postscript driver should work fine for any Brother printer that supports BR-Script 3.

The HP Linux Imaging and Printing System

Posted Dec 16, 2004 11:43 UTC (Thu) by forthy (guest, #1525) [Link]

I've a Kyocera laser printer (1020-D), which comes with a PPD file for
Linux, and doesn't need any further driver support, because it's a
PostScript printer.

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