[OpenIndiana-discuss] a good cheap color laser printer/scanner/copier for openindiana

[Stephan Althaus]

On 9/2/25 09:50, Marc Lobelle via openindiana-discuss wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> My old Brother MFC- 9330 CDW is nearing its end of life  and I'll have 
> to replace it.
>
> Not all printers are correctly supported by openindiana. Which 
> (unexpensive: it is for home use) color laser printer/scanner/copier  
> for openindiana would you recommend ?
>
> Thanks and best regards
>
> Marc
>
>
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Hi!

I would generally say that any modern printer is capable of Postscript,
so any should do the job, if you setup your driver (with cups?) to use 
postscript.

I have a HP MFP 281fdw.

This i have in CUPS:

Description: 	HPLIP
Location: 	
Driver: 	HP ColorLaserJet MFP M278-M281 Postscript (recommended) (color, 
2-sided printing)


(.. but you could use a postcript drive for an apple color laserwriter, 
too. Maybe you can't use some features, but you will be able to print..)

For scanning i currently use "simplescan" on a linux vm..

We have xsane package on OI, but it seems currently broken because of 
the gimp update to version 3:

$ xsane
ld.so.1: xsane: fatal: libgimp-2.0.so.0: open failed: No such file or 
directory
ld.so.1: xsane: fatal: relocation error: file /usr/bin/xsane: symbol 
gimp_main: referenced symbol not found

Regards,

Stephan