Hello, Please CC to me any answer for I'm just on debian-laptop at the moment, but I have renounced buying a portable printer so I may get flamed if I ask there ;-) (not true of course, I've seen very nice hints on formatting and printing ascii files recently on debian-laptop).
I am to buy an entry level monochrome laser printer (it seems as when it comes to text and music scores a 600dpi laser is better than any inkjet) and of course I'm looking for one that works with Debian. (I'll add some details just in case anybody else is interested in the matter, I'm in Paris, France, so I guess the prices are not so interesting on the list, anyway the three printers mentioned here are more or less the same price.) The Lexmark Optra E312 (600x600dpi, 4Mbytes RAM, 10ppm, 3 years replacement-at-home warranty, relatively cheap toner cartridge [5000 pages] with builtin photoconductor) claims "Postscript2+pcl6 emulations". Could I just send to it the Postscript files produced with the tools commonly used in Linux? (It is not marked "Adobe Postscript" [and evidently not "Adobe Postscript 3"], is it some "dialect" from IBM?) I guess a PCL-only printer would also do, maybe via Ghostscript as a translator, but what would it miss compared to a Postscript printer? Actually, other candidates with PCL but no Postscript are: - Brother HL-P2500, 600x600dpi, 4Mbytes, 12ppm, 600dpi builtin scanner but of course just for sheets and in good health, relatively cheap toner cartridge (6000 pages) with no builtin photoconductor (20000 pages), 1 year no replacement and of course not home serviced warranty; - Epson EPL-5800, 1200x1200dpi, 16Mbytes, more expensive fine grain toner (6000 pages) with no builtin photoconductor (20000 pages), 1 year no replacement and of course not home serviced warranty, among the options there is "Adobe Postscript 3.0" but the price is nearly 60% of the price without it! Thanks for any advice, Nicola Bernardelli
