Re: Lexmark Printers in Linux

John Howell wrote:

> Well, for once something on my Suse10 system was not a complete pain in
> the arse to setup. I just purchased a new Lexmark T522n printer that was
> massively discounted as the box was damaged, and the old T522 is nearly
> obsolete, but it has a NIC built in, had LPD print server and was only
> $250 instead of the retail $1000.
> I sat down prepared to spend the evening trying to get my head around
> CUPS, Postscript, compiling drivers etc. But wow, head on over to the
> lexmark website and found the drivers already in a nice rpm for suse,
> downloaded, unzipped, installed, followed the instructions in the pdf and
> viola, Printer attached to the network and printing with 30 minutes 8)
>
> This solved a bunch of printing problems I was having as my old Cannon
> bubblejet driver was just rubbish, poor resolution of lines (lots of
> jaggies) , poor resolution on rotated text, OpenOffice just not printing
> anything at all. The same printer had worked fine under Windows, and
> printing from Windows to the printer shared on my Samba server was fine.
>
> So I can highly recommend at least this Lexmark printer to 'nix newbies
> who want a great laser printer that is nearly silent (unless actually
> printing) and had great linux support right from the supplier.
>
> Anyone else have a good story to tell about a mainstream product for
> linux?

I bought an HP Photosmart printer with network connection, plugged it into
the switch, the HP Windows drivers took around 30-40 minutes to install. I
just pointed my Linux box at the IP address of the printer and told it to
use the standard Photosmart driver delivered with SUSE and 30 seconds later
it had printed a test page...

Dave
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