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andreas

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Printer Suggestion for ArcaOS
« on: February 04, 2025, 07:18:25 pm »
I need an new Laser-Printer, black/white, Postscript.
Any suggestions?
The HP Laserjet M234dw looks nice. Would it work with ARCAOS?
« Last Edit: February 05, 2025, 01:37:25 pm by Martin Iturbide »

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Re: Printer
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2025, 10:09:41 pm »
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.
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Re: Printer
« Reply #2 on: February 05, 2025, 01:33:01 am »
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.

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Re: Printer
« Reply #3 on: February 05, 2025, 01:42:00 am »
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  :-)


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Re: Printer
« Reply #4 on: February 05, 2025, 01:42:59 am »
Rumor is that Brother printers have also gone downhill, so ideally an older model and do your research.

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Re: Printer
« Reply #5 on: February 05, 2025, 04:56:59 am »
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.

I'll give Brother the vote as well. Running the HL-5470DW model here, duplex, quick and I even managed to tweak the published PPD file and import it to enable controls for MOST of the features. The one thing that failed was the ability for the PSCRIPT driver to run the HQ1200 (so High Quality emulated mode, just faster and obviously less sharp version of the full 1200dpi print option). No problem though b/c for some reason the PSPRINT drive actually handles that one very well. So for quick jobs I send to PSPRINT, for quality jobs I send to PSCRIPT drivers.

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Re: Printer Suggestion for ArcaOS
« Reply #6 on: February 05, 2025, 03:28:28 pm »
I've used HPLIP on an HP M252dw for many years. HP printers work OK. Toner costs are high. If HPLIP can be updated, then the HP is a reasonable choice.

The HP is easy to use to print from my phone.

I see some legacy operations where installing CUPS would not be appropriate. The HP is a good choice for printing with the original IBM Laserjet drivers.
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Re: Printer Suggestion for ArcaOS
« Reply #7 on: February 06, 2025, 06:15:29 pm »
what do you think about a Canon i-SENSYS MF655Cdw?
Looks also nice to me..

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Re: Printer Suggestion for ArcaOS
« Reply #8 on: February 12, 2025, 04:00:37 pm »
I bought the Canon printer Canon MF272dw. What driver should i install?

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Re: Printer Suggestion for ArcaOS
« Reply #9 on: February 12, 2025, 08:18:39 pm »
Hi andreas

What printer language does it speak? - I tried looking at specs but seamonkey does not work with canon websites.


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Re: Printer Suggestion for ArcaOS
« Reply #10 on: February 12, 2025, 09:09:24 pm »
Checked Canon's web and it states;

Printer Languages
UFRII

PSCRIPT not mentioned anywhere so I think CUPS is the only way to make it work.

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Re: Printer Suggestion for ArcaOS
« Reply #11 on: February 13, 2025, 05:20:23 pm »
Yes, no postscript unfortunatelly. I coudln't find the printer in cups. Does it mean i cannot get it working with OS/2 at all?

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Re: Printer Suggestion for ArcaOS
« Reply #12 on: February 13, 2025, 05:50:08 pm »
I think that one is dead and before you buy it, unless you are using windows.  It looks as if it is designed for windows use only (the UFRII printer language tells you that).

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Re: Printer Suggestion for ArcaOS
« Reply #13 on: February 13, 2025, 11:55:06 pm »
Hi andreas

Looks like a potential paperweight - unless our cups can do "IPP Everywhere" which, it seems, does not need vendor specific drivers see https://www.pwg.org/ipp/everywhere.html


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Re: Printer Suggestion for ArcaOS
« Reply #14 on: February 14, 2025, 12:39:04 am »
Hello

FYI: Just to share the specs.... I think it is this one:
- Canon i-SENSYS MF272dw Specifications
- Canon i-SENSYS MF272dw Support

It says it is supported under Windows, MacOS and Linux. But I can not find any reference to CUPS there.

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