experience with Xerox Phaser 6180n & filepro

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Mike Schwartz (Thu, 1 Mar 2007 20:25:13 -0600):
[...]
> It is the "internally" that got me wondering:  Does anybody know of any
> laser printers (color or black & white) that are "dumb" and depend on
> external drivers to do any printing at all, like most of the inkjets
> currently do?
>
>     I always considered laser printers fairly safe, insofar as all the
> newer ones would handle at least PCL3 commands.

There are plenty of "host based" laser printers on the market.  How
many are still marketed, I can't say, but a quick check of the printer
list at <http://www.linuxprinting.org> shows plenty of laser printers
that are not in the "works perfectly" column.  Start with Lexmark
brand as an example:

    http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi?make=Lexmark

Yes, plenty of these are inkjets, but plenty are laserjets as well,
such as the "Winprinter" series.  Given that they supply Linux
drivers for some of the "host-based" laser printers, I would guess
that those are relatively recent.

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