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Printer Suggestion for ArcaOS

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andreas:
I need an new Laser-Printer, black/white, Postscript.
Any suggestions?
The HP Laserjet M234dw looks nice. Would it work with ARCAOS?

Pete2:
It needs HPLIP 3.212, so looks like it won't work with CUPS, unless you talk nicely to Paul. It might work with an older postscript driver, which might not give you access to all the features. AFAICT wireless printers generally work ok -the other Pete has experience of this. My printer is a cheapo USB-only HP all-in-one for which printing with CUPS has sometimes worked, and scanning has sometimes worked, but never both at once.
Pete

ivan:
Try looking at the Brother range of laser printers.  I have two, a HL-3170cdw and DCP-9020cdw, both have postscript emulation (BR-Script3), hence the use of the PSPRINT driver, do not require special drivers other than SLPR and both work over my local network.

Pete:
Hi andreas

Not sure if I am "the other Pete" but I second Pete2's suggestion of talking nicely to Paul to see if he has the time to look into porting hplip 3.212 - clicking the Donate button here
    https://os2ports.smedley.id.au/   
 may help :-)

Alternatively you would need to either add a "cleaned" PPD to psprint.drv for this printer if it uses postscript - the page here suggests not https://support.hp.com/us-en/product/product-specs/hp-laserjet-mfp-m232-m237-printer-series/model/30836604 - or possibly use PCL driver *if* that works with PCLmS.

I suspect your best option would be hplip, would make wireless connectivity easy ( famous last words etc  :-)


Regards

Pete

Dave Yeo:
Rumor is that Brother printers have also gone downhill, so ideally an older model and do your research.

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