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lpino

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What laser printer?
« on: 2008.09.04, 16:04:18 »
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.

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Radek

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Re: What laser printer?
« Reply #1 on: 2008.09.04, 16:21:10 »
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.

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Re: What laser printer?
« Reply #2 on: 2008.09.04, 23:49:50 »
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  :-)


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Re: What laser printer?
« Reply #3 on: 2008.09.05, 01:07:20 »
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.

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Re: What laser printer?
« Reply #4 on: 2008.09.05, 16:48:44 »
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!
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Re: What laser printer?
« Reply #5 on: 2008.09.11, 15:03:39 »
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.

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.

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Re: What laser printer?
« Reply #6 on: 2008.09.11, 20:34:01 »
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