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

ray staggered into the Black Sun and said:
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?
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.

ITYM "some printers will speak generic PostScript or PCL". For various
reasons (features, general bloody-mindedness of hardware manufacturers),
most printers seem to require at least a PPD to work in a reasonable
way.

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.

The Color Laserjet 3000n is supported by hplip-0.9.7 and up according to
the docs in hplip. I didn't know that it spoke PostScript. hplip is
provided by HP under the GPL, MIT, or BSD licenses depending on exactly
which piece of the hplip package you're talking about (Yay!). I've had
very good luck getting a 3600n to work with CUPS and hplip. HTH,

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