[OpenIndiana-discuss] Multifunction colour laser printer for OSOL, OI ?

[Ken Gunderson]

On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 09:24 +0000, Guy Woolley wrote:
> Hello all,
>               Does anyone have positive experience of a currently 
> available (not legacy) Multifunction colour laser printer (duplex 
> printing,copy, scan, fax) running under recent OpenSolaris or OpenIndiana ?
> 
> I have located 2 possible models:
> 
> Samsung CLX-6220FX

No experience here.

> Manufacturer mentions a "Unified driver for Linux"
> 
> Brother DCP-9055CDN

Experience with a few Brother models.  Presently an MFC-8860DN and
HL-1650N.  A few others at various client sites that I forget the model
numbers off the top of my head.

In my experience the key, at least w.r.t. the printing side is to get a
Postscript printer.  HP invented their competing printer control
language because they didn't want to have to pay Adobe royalties where
more of the processing is done client side and requires client side
drivers.  With Postscript printers most (all?) processing is done by the
printer engine.  Hence, as long as you have a postscript printer
definition file (ppd) you're good to go.  Otherwise you end up with
reverse engineered foomatic and may end up with a lag between release
and CUPS support. 

> manufacturer mentions CUPS driver download.

Now that CUPS is become defacto *nix standard, it's good to see some
manufacturers supporting it out of the gate.  But I'd still opt for a
Postscript, or Brother's functionally equivalent "BR Script" printer -
they'll run forever w/o any need for driver updates.  

AFAIK, CUPS is not going to get your scanner or fax working though.  For
scanner you need SANE and I've minimal experience there.  I think HPLIP
gives SANE an interface to HP scanners but haven't a clue as to which
models are currently supported.

> 
> Any other suggestions v. welcome - or even report that the above do NOT 
> work, or that there is no such thing would be very useful.

Were I you, I'd also be looking at Lexmark.

> I've tried openprinting.org but didn't get anywhere.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Guy
> 
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