On 15/02/11 07:24 PM, Guy Woolley wrote:
Hello all,
Does anyone have positive experience of a currently available (not
legacy) Multifunction colour laser printer (duplex printing,copy,
scan, fax) running under recent OpenSolaris or OpenIndiana ?
I have located 2 possible models:
Samsung CLX-6220FX
Manufacturer mentions a "Unified driver for Linux"
Brother DCP-9055CDN
manufacturer mentions CUPS driver download.
Any other suggestions v. welcome - or even report that the above do
NOT work, or that there is no such thing would be very useful.
I've tried openprinting.org but didn't get anywhere.
Hello Guy,
My experience recently has been with Canon and Epson. Both
companies claim to be opensource-friendly, but Canon's openness
only extends as far as giving you pre-compiled linux binary
blobs for its actual raster engine.
Epson, on the other hand, provides proper buildable source for
their consumer-grade inkjets (I've got the Stylus Photo TX810fw)
and it works very nicely indeed. The only quibble I've got is
that I still need to hack on the ppd so it'll do duplexing for
me. But that's not a high priority at the moment.
Epson's drivers are available via http://avasys.jp/eng/linux_driver,
and they do have a section for lasers.
Once you've got their bits installed, it's very easy to tell
CUPS about them, and away you go.
McB
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