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

[Guy Woolley]

  Thanks for the advice - I'll keep looking. The Lexmark's look 
attractive (Model 544DN and relatives) but the spec details show Sparc 
8,9,10 and X86-Solaris 10, but no sign of Solaris 11.

Cheers

Guy

On 02/15/11 02:06 PM, Ken Gunderson wrote:
> 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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