Re: help to choose right printer to buy

2011-07-30 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 09:23:07 +1000, Rob Hurle wrote: > On 30 July 2011 00:48, Camaleón wrote: >> On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:52:20 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> >> If in doubt, look for the one that features PostScript support. In the >> worst scenario, PS printers should be able to work with gene

Re: help to choose right printer to buy

2011-07-29 Thread shawn wilson
On Jul 26, 2011 9:43 PM, "Rob Hurle" wrote: > > >> I've had an HP LaserJet p1102w for almost two years now. I've used it > >> with Lenny, then Squeeze, and now Wheezy with no problems. Even the > >> wireless printing works. No duplexing, unless you count manual :) IMHO, > >> HP has the best suppo

Re: help to choose right printer to buy

2011-07-29 Thread Rob Hurle
On 30 July 2011 00:48, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:52:20 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > > If in doubt, look for the one that features PostScript support. In the > worst scenario, PS printers should be able to work with generic PS driver. Yes, Postscript support will get you out of

Re: help to choose right printer to buy

2011-07-29 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:52:20 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > I'm looking to buy one of these B/W Laser printers: > > Samsung ML-2855ND or Brother HL-2270DW. http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Samsung/Samsung-ML-2855ND http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Brother/Brother-HL-2270DW Support for b

Re: help to choose right printer to buy

2011-07-28 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
One advantage of the HP "Eprint" printers (most new inkjet models, don't know about lasers) is you can send print jobs via either HP's Eprint service via email or through Google's Cloud Print from Gmail or Google Docs under Chrome, or from Android. No driver install needed because the job is rende

Re: help to choose right printer to buy

2011-07-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 27 Jul 2011, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > yep - brothers have worked well for me too. > > Brian > I have two laser printers: Samsung ML2571N and Brother HL5240L. Both worked perfectly with magicfilter and lprng (I don't use Cups). For the Brother I used their supplied linux filter. I asked

Re: help to choose right printer to buy

2011-07-27 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:17:41 +0200, Siard wrote: > You can see that the HL-2270DW, too, works 'perfectly' in Linux: > www.openprinting.org/printer/Brother/Brother-HL-2270DW Yes, I've seen this as I already said in one of my posts. It's not clear from that information what distro and what version

Re: help to choose right printer to buy

2011-07-27 Thread Siard
Juan R. de Silva wrote: > The difference between Brother and Samsung customer support was > impressive even on this level. I might be wrong, but after such > experience I would expect to find the same difference on the upper as > well. I would not judge them from the knowledge of just one indiv

Re: help to choose right printer to buy

2011-07-27 Thread briand
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:52:57 -0400 Dan Ritter wrote: > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 12:43:06AM +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > > On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:13:34 -0400, Michael Checca wrote: > > > > > Again, Brother support is horrible. I wouldn't expect them to be > > > engineers, but to at least have

Re: help to choose right printer to buy

2011-07-27 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 12:43:06AM +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:13:34 -0400, Michael Checca wrote: > > > Again, Brother support is horrible. I wouldn't expect them to be > > engineers, but to at least have heard of Linux and know that is a kernel > > not an OS :) > > Af

Re: help to choose right printer to buy

2011-07-26 Thread Rob Hurle
> After I made a post, I phoned Samsung support, just out of curiosity. > As normal, I faced up a girl from the 1st line support. Yes, she was not > an engineer. But she firmly new what Linux is, she was well aware of the > existence of different distributions, their versions, and the difference >

Re: help to choose right printer to buy

2011-07-26 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:13:34 -0400, Michael Checca wrote: > Again, Brother support is horrible. I wouldn't expect them to be > engineers, but to at least have heard of Linux and know that is a kernel > not an OS :) After I made a post, I phoned Samsung support, just out of curiosity. As normal,

Re: help to choose right printer to buy

2011-07-26 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:04:08 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 08:52:20PM +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> I'm looking to buy one of these B/W Laser printers: >> >> Samsung ML-2855ND or Brother HL-2270DW. >> >> I have no personal experience with printers of these manufacturers

Re: help to choose right printer to buy

2011-07-26 Thread Michael Checca
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:52:20 -0400, Juan R. de Silva wrote: I'm looking to buy one of these B/W Laser printers: Samsung ML-2855ND or Brother HL-2270DW. I have no personal experience with printers of these manufacturers and have no idea how good their drivers/support are. I've never used a Sa

Re: help to choose right printer to buy

2011-07-26 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 26/07/11 23:04, Roger Leigh wrote: On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 08:52:20PM +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: I'm looking to buy one of these B/W Laser printers: Samsung ML-2855ND or Brother HL-2270DW. I have no personal experience with printers of these manufacturers and have no idea how good the

Re: help to choose right printer to buy

2011-07-26 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 08:52:20PM +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > I'm looking to buy one of these B/W Laser printers: > > Samsung ML-2855ND or Brother HL-2270DW. > > I have no personal experience with printers of these manufacturers and > have no idea how good their drivers/support are. Check

help to choose right printer to buy

2011-07-26 Thread Juan R. de Silva
I'm looking to buy one of these B/W Laser printers: Samsung ML-2855ND or Brother HL-2270DW. I have no personal experience with printers of these manufacturers and have no idea how good their drivers/support are. Samsung lists as supported only few distributions of old versions and offers so ca