On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 09:24 +0000, 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
No experience here. > Manufacturer mentions a "Unified driver for Linux" > > Brother DCP-9055CDN Experience with a few Brother models. Presently an MFC-8860DN and HL-1650N. A few others at various client sites that I forget the model numbers off the top of my head. In my experience the key, at least w.r.t. the printing side is to get a Postscript printer. HP invented their competing printer control language because they didn't want to have to pay Adobe royalties where more of the processing is done client side and requires client side drivers. With Postscript printers most (all?) processing is done by the printer engine. Hence, as long as you have a postscript printer definition file (ppd) you're good to go. Otherwise you end up with reverse engineered foomatic and may end up with a lag between release and CUPS support. > manufacturer mentions CUPS driver download. Now that CUPS is become defacto *nix standard, it's good to see some manufacturers supporting it out of the gate. But I'd still opt for a Postscript, or Brother's functionally equivalent "BR Script" printer - they'll run forever w/o any need for driver updates. AFAIK, CUPS is not going to get your scanner or fax working though. For scanner you need SANE and I've minimal experience there. I think HPLIP gives SANE an interface to HP scanners but haven't a clue as to which models are currently supported. > > 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. Were I you, I'd also be looking at Lexmark. > I've tried openprinting.org but didn't get anywhere. > > Thanks > > Guy > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss -- Ken Gunderson <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
