[plug] Cheap Laser for Linux

[Craig Foster]

I've had a lot of problems with Brother laser printers... Especially early
wearing OPC drums that leave a streak down on side of the page. The paper
pickups are similar between the new HP and most of the Brother range.

Most schools we're involved with tried the new HP lasers, but realised that
they went through a significantly greater amount of toner that the standard
FS-680 or FS-1000/FS-1010 Kyoceras.

Kyocera printers need to be told that they're running PCL, as KPDL (the
default) is an ecclectic mix of PCL and PS. Enough PS infact, that Acrobat
6.0 printing can choke them, except if you print as an image :/

HtH,

CraigF.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.linux.org.au 
> [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.linux.org.au] On Behalf Of Michael Holland
> Sent: Thursday, 20 May 2004 11:52 AM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au; ranz at devdata.net
> Subject: Re: [plug] Cheap Laser for Linux
> 
> On Thu, 20 May 2004, Randal Adamson wrote:
> 
> > I've also checked linuxprinting.org and they seem to be way 
> behind on 
> > the new models for driver support - hence my thinking that 
> PCL is the 
> > way to go.
> 
> I just looked up a couple of cheap current lasers, and they 
> were covered,
> 
> e.g. Brother HL5040
> http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Brother-HL-5040
> 
> Thats around $500 and lists as "works perfectly".
> Oh, wait. It _is_ PCL :-)
> 
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