Looking for PCL5 printers that are not host-based GDI (Windows Only) printers (again)...

[Brian K. White]

On 4/24/2013 12:21 PM, Mike Schwartz wrote:
> From: Henry Melancon [mailto:hemelancon at gifinc.com]
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>> One of my input clerks has a new HP 2035 connected to her computer.
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>> It seems to work fine with our version of FilePro 5.0 Windows Network
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>> version.
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>       I'm looking for printers that will work directly with Linux.  The
> printers should have a built-in network interface, although I could install
> print servers on them.
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>       Are any of you printing to HP 3015n printers directly from Unix or
> Linux systems?

I'm printing to a 3015 without the N and it works. Through a no-name 
one-port parallel print server, and through passthrough-print through 
the terminal emulator through the pc directly connected via usb.

I can't say how much of our output pushes the pcl5 spec in detail, it's 
just a lot of pcl. And I use a PCL5 driver when printing directly from 
Windows. If you want to send me a raw test print job I'll feed it to the 
printer and see what it does.

Mine has no built-in network but any N model from HP, the network side 
of things should be safely assumed to be fine in terms of compatibility, 
speed, and reliability. I've never had a problem with even the cheapest 
built-in network from HP.

It's actually several years old by now and it's been pretty solid the 
whole time. No problems at all except going through the parallel port is 
noticeably slower than usb. But it see's pretty light use. It's several 
years old and still works, but for example I think I'm only on the 2nd 
toner.

I use it for scanning and faxing too, and the twain scanning driver 
works well. Usb-only for scanning. no idea how well scanning over 
network would work with the N model.

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bkw