Printer Suggestions

fatboy21 · 12-09-2005, 05:35 PM

I'm in the market for a black/white Laser Printer to use with my desktop running Slackware (and to network to Windows from there).

I was looking at the "Suggested Printers" on http://www.linuxprinting.org

I'm thinking about the "HP LaserJet 1022", but I read that a couple people had problems setting it up using Linux.

Anyone have any advice?

Thanks in advance...

kak · 12-09-2005, 06:20 PM

I have a Samsung ML-2010 B/W laser that works very nicely with linux, plus it ships with the linux drivers on a cdrom. The biggest selling point was that Slackware was listed on the outside of the box

Also you might want to check the HCL.

MMYoung · 12-09-2005, 06:33 PM

If you stick with HP (a good choice, IMHO) be sure and look at the HPLIP driver and it's Supported Printers page. I've been using this driver with Slackware (I build a package for it) and it works as well as any I've seen. If you get one of the Multi-Function printers (I have a PSC-1610) you can print, scan and access the multi-card reader from within the HP Toolbox utility and FAXING is getting closer.

Later,
MMYoung

mjjzf · 12-10-2005, 03:53 AM

I use the Brother HL-1430 with the recommended driver. As an interesting detail, Brother has recently released a numberof drivers under the GPL, so it is actually free software.

brodo · 12-10-2005, 01:10 PM

A little outdated Kyocera Fs-1000 works nicely with my current Slack.