Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: printers compatible with Gnu&Linux

On 06/08/2013 02:04 PM, Felmon Davis wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Jun 2013, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote:
>
> > On 06/07/2013 03:48 PM, Luuk wrote:
> > > On 07-06-2013 21:30, Stefan Gruber wrote:
> > > > Tom Davies schrieb am Freitag, 7. Juni 2013 12:33:
> > > > > Does anyone know of companies that do product-lines that are easily
> > > > > compatible with Gnu&Linux?
> > > >
> > > > Look at Kyocera TASKalfa Series...
> > >
> > > fifteen years ago, Kyocera was crap.....
> > > I sure hope they improved their stuff since that time.
> > I think I have seen this brand here in the Northeast USA.
>
> it is one of the main printers I use at work.
>
> it's in the basement and I'm networked to it but mostly I use it 
> directly to copy stuff or scan stuff in pdf onto a flashdrive; one can 
> also send scanned stuff to a 'mailbox' which can be accessed via a 
> browser; you can set this 'public' or 'private'.
>
> the few occasions I 'send' jobs to it it's via CUPS. I do this so 
> infrequently I'm not even sure it works but I imagine it does. it 
> works fine with another networked printer I use daily at work (an HP 
> laser device, b/w, two trays, duplex).
>
> F.
>
> > HP is one of the major brands for the "big" office printer, copier, 
> > fax, collating, stapling and multi-tray office machine.  There are 
> > others, but so far it seems that the driver for Ubuntu with "HP CUPS" 
> > has the most printer tray and paper/envelope sizes/styles of all of 
> > the other brands of printers I have tried on my system.
> >
> > I really think the key will be which brand and model of "big office 
> > printer" has the best driver, with the most options, for Linux. That 
> > is in the subject line after all.  I have had [and have] some nice 
> > printers that currently have no proper Linux driver[s].  My HP 7000 
> > wide format will print letter size [8.5 by 11 inches] but will not 
> > print the 11 by 17 inch paper, for which I bought it.  I have to use 
> > my Win7 "boot" of my dual booting laptop to use that printer.

Printer in the basement of the office building - well that is 
inconvenient to print and the go there to pick your prints up.

All of the printers I use are left of my desktop [I am left handed] and 
less than 4 feet away.  If I cannot reach them, I just "roll" the chair 
over to the printer. I have the HP laser printer and the Canon inkjet on 
the "desk high" shelf and the wide format printer on a shelf 2 feet over 
top of the laser printer.

My laser printer is an HP laserjet 2300 dn - duplex and network.  It has 
the bottom tray and the fold-out multipurpose tray.  I use the bottom 
tray for the "standard copy paper" quality paper.  I use the fold-out 
tray for the feeding of 1 to 10 sheets of colored paper, cover stock 
paper, envelopes, and other types of printing.

When I look at the printer's available drivers [i.e. make and model 
driver list]  I get 15 different ones to choose from.  I use the one 
that is named "HP Laserjet 2300 pcl3, hpcups 3.13.4".  That one has the 
most options of all the ones I have tried, so far.

NOTE:  I finally got the HP Officejet 7000 wide format printer to work.  
I had to reserve its network IP address in the router table and define 
it.  Then I had to install all of the packages for "hplip" that was in 
the Synaptic Package Manager that seemed was not installed, or reinstall 
the repository versions, if it looked like a non-repository version was 
installed.  Something was missing, somewhere, but is finally prints the 
11 by 17 inch paper, instead of just the 8.5 by 11 inch type.  It was a 
pain to boot up a Windows partition on my laptop to print my posters and 
newsletters via a PDF file on a flash drive.

I keep the following paper in the printers:

HP Laser 2300dn
------- bottom tray - generic/plain white paper
------- fold-out tray - sometimes color paper or cover stock paper

Canon MG6220 inkjet
------ bottom tray - quality bright white inkjet paper
------ back tray - photo paper
------ printer also prints the labels on the DVD media

HP Officejet 7000 - wide format
------ bottom tray - 11 by 17 inch paper of either plain paper or cover 
stock paper



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