I'm thinking on buying a new laser printer. Is there any "supported" models?. By supported I mean old drivers that would work or any good experience with CUPS.
Thanks
LJ 1200 - supported by eCS, works perfectly. At present, this printer must be rather cheap. I have one and I have no complaints with it.
Quote from: lpino on 2008.09.04, 17:04:18
I'm thinking on buying a new laser printer. Is there any "supported" models?. By supported I mean old drivers that would work or any good experience with CUPS.
Thanks
Hi
Make sure the printer of your choice is a Postscript capable device.
The driver is a *.PPD file which you can then add to the OS/2 pscript.drv to create your own printer driver :-)
Regards
Pete
Essentially any postscript capable printer is good. For non-postscript printers you would need to check to see how people are faring with ecups to use it. I am happy with my Brother MFC-7820N. MFC being multifunction and the N being network. The printing is great, using the other functions don't work with OS/2 right now but for me that is not an issue. They do work, via network, using windows under VPC.
Go to http://en.ecomstation.ru and click on Hardware, then Printers and you will see a pretty much up to date listing & comments of printers (Laser included) that work with Os2/eCs!
Did you connect that printer to the pc through the USB cable? Which driver do you use under eCS? I ordered the same printer today.
Quote from: abwillis on 2008.09.05, 02:07:20
Essentially any postscript capable printer is good. For non-postscript printers you would need to check to see how people are faring with ecups to use it. I am happy with my Brother MFC-7820N. MFC being multifunction and the N being network. The printing is great, using the other functions don't work with OS/2 right now but for me that is not an issue. They do work, via network, using windows under VPC.
Quote from: Carlo_Warp on 2008.09.11, 16:03:39
Did you connect that printer to the pc through the USB cable? Which driver do you use under eCS? I ordered the same printer today.
I connected the printer to my router (builtin print server in printer) and print to it via the slpr port.
I used pin to update the pscript driver from the windows ppd file.
http://svn.netlabs.org/ecups/wiki/AddPpdFiles