Linux Printing: Still Awful
CLIFFORD ILKAY
clifford_ilkay-biY6FKoJMRdBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Fri Mar 14 15:52:30 UTC 2008
phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org wrote:
>> Which Samsung printer are you having troubles with?
>>
> It's a monochrome laser model, the ML-2250. I have gotten it to print a
> couple of test pages correctly but then it goes off into the weeds again,
> dumping out pages of gibberish. Perhaps the ghostscript interpreter is
> somehow getting removed and the thing is getting raw postscript commands
> to print.
>
> One option I suppose is to put the Samsung postscript interpreter chip in
> the machine, turning it into a postscript printer. But that option not
> cheap and it eliminates the flexibility one gets with software-based
> ghostscript.
>
> I'm going to have another round with it today and if there is no progress
> I may have to hire someone who knows their way around this stuff...
Used Lexmark Optra network printers are very inexpensive. They are real
PostScript printers with an Ethernet port. I have never had the kind of
difficulty with printing you have outlined but then I have only ever
dealt with network printers, Lexmark, HP, and Xerox. My experience with
Linux printing, CUPS in particular, has been that it is easier to
configure than Windows printing.
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Regards,
Clifford Ilkay
Dinamis Corporation
1419-3266 Yonge St.
Toronto, ON
Canada M4N 3P6
<http://dinamis.com>
+1 416-410-3326
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