Re: HP Color LaserJet 3000n with Linux (Mandrake/Mandriva, Fedora)

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:40:26 +0200, Henrik Carlqvist wrote:

Matt Giwer <jull43@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Is the HP Color LaserJet 3000n compatible (i.e., relatively trouble-
free) with Linux in general?

First, linux has nothing to do with it. It is the drivers that come with
the distribution which are maintained separately.

Some printers require drivers, some printers does not require any driver
at all.

Every printer requires a driver. Some are quite happy with more or less
generic ones.


If it is their latest and greatest printer, there probably will not be a
driver for it for a few months.

The 3000n is a rather new printer. It seems to be a good choice as it is
capable of handling PostScript input. PostScript is the standard printing
language that other cheap printers need "drivers" like gs to understand.

I've not looked in depth at this one, but I would bet it does not run
PostScript natively. It is probably a PostScript emulation layer which
runs on the native, probably PCL, layer. Result usually is that PostScript
rendering is very slow by comparison. Usually a factor of about three to
one.



regards Henrik

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