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Hardware: Printer Compatibility

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[edit] General Information


[edit] Brother Laser Printers

[edit] Brother HL-1230

  • Monochrome laser printer with a maximum resolution of 600x600 dpi
  • Parallel port only
  • Automatically configured by all versions of Mandriva Linux since 9.1
  • Uses the hl1250 CUPS driver


[edit] Brother HL-1240

  • Monochrome laser printer with a maximum resolution of 600x600 dpi.
  • Parallel and USB connections
  • Automatically configured by all versions of Mandriva Linux since 9.1
  • Uses the hl1250 CUPS driver


[edit] Brother HL-1430

  • Monochrome laser printer with a maximum resolution of 1200x600 dpi.
  • Parallel and USB connections
  • Automatically configured by all versions of Mandriva Linux since 9.2
  • Uses the hl1250 CUPS driver


[edit] HL-5150D

  • Well supported, at least in mdk 9.2
  • The CD that comes with the printer has a ppd file that should be copied to /var/cups/models to ensure full functionality, but it does seem to work with the 5050 ppd file that comes with mdk 9.2


[edit] Canon

[edit] Canon i250

  • All versions of Mandriva Linux up to 10.1 do not support it natively. You should download the drivers from one of the Canon Official Sites - [[1][Canon i250 Drivers for Linux]]. You can use the rpms or you can compile from source. You should download and install both bjfiltercups-2.3-0.i386.rpm and bjfilteri250-2.3-0.i386.rpm .


[edit] CASIO

[edit] CASIO KP-C10 Label Printer

  • The test label printed fine, but I had to tweak /usr/lib/cups/backend/cups2pegg to get labels to print properly. Changing the rotation from 90 to 270 degrees lets the test print, but I still have too much left margin.


[edit] EPSON Inkjet Printers

[edit] Stylus PHOTO 830

  • Recognised and configured 'out of the box' in M9.0 , M9.1 - good results with print-outs


[edit] Stylus COLOR 670

  • Recognised and configured since (at least) Mdk 8.2 - some options of the driver are not fully working.


[edit] Stylus COLOR 880

  • Bought second-hand, previous user was running as USB but I had a spare parallel cable that fitted so I'm running as parallel. Recognised immediately by Mandriva Linux 9.2, good quality printing in both black and colour.


[edit] Stylus C41UX

  • Cheap entry level colour inkjet printer
  • USB connection only
  • Automatically configured by Printerdrake since Mandriva Linux 9.1
  • Can check ink levels using mtink utility packaged with Mandriva Linux 9.1 and above
  • Uses the gimp-print driver


[edit] Stylus C41SX

  • Cheap entry level colour inkjet printer
  • Parallel port connection only
  • Automatically configured by Printerdrake since Mandriva Linux 9.1
  • Can check ink levels using mtink utility packaged with Mandriva Linux 9.1 and above
  • Uses the gimp-print driver


[edit] Stylus C43UX

  • Cheap entry level colour inkjet printer
  • Newer than the C41UX but almost identical hardware and software
  • USB connection only
  • Automatically configured by Printerdrake since Mandriva Linux 9.2
  • Uses the same ink cartridges as the Stylus C41UX/SX
  • Can check ink levels using mtink utility packaged with Mandriva Linux 9.1 and above - Select the Stylus C41UX option.
  • Uses the gimp-print driver


[edit] Stylus C43SX

  • Cheap entry level colour inkjet printer
  • Newer than the C41SX but almost identical hardware and software
  • Parallel port connection only
  • Automatically configured by Printerdrake since Mandriva Linux 9.2
  • Uses the same ink cartridges as the Stylus C41UX/SX
  • Can check ink levels using mtink utility packaged with Mandriva Linux 9.1 and above - Select the Stylus C41SX option.
  • Uses the gimp-print driver


[edit] Stylus C44plus

  • Works perfectly over USB with driver from Turboprint.de. See EpsonC44HowTo for setup instructions.


[edit] Stylus C61/C62

  • 4-ink home printer with a high resolution output (Epson claims 5760x720 dpi)
  • USB and Parallel port connections
  • Automatically configured by Printerdrake since Mandriva Linux 9.1
  • Can check ink levels using mtink utility packaged with Mandriva Linux 9.1 and above - Select the Stylus C62 option.
  • Uses the gimp-print driver


[edit] Stylus C82

  • Recognized and configured "out of the box" in 9.0 and 9.1
  • Excellent printout using gimp drivers


[edit] Stylus C84 photo edition

  • Good colour rendering in all settings White line problem in normal quality using Foomatic+Gimp-Print(recommended)


[edit] Stylus CX3100 (All-in-One)

  • Recognized and configured out of the box in 9.2 and 10.0 using cups . Scanner is detected and set up by XSane and available from Kooka. Ink levels can be monitored using the mtink utility in the System > Configuration > Printing menu.


[edit] Stylus CX5200 (All-in-One)

  • Recognized and configured out of the box in 9.2 using cups . Scanner is immediately available in kooka.


[edit] Stylus Scan 2500 (All-in-One)

  • Works fine over USB connection in MDK 9.0 ; should work similarly well for later releases.


[edit] HP DeskJet series

  • Generally well supported, a few exceptions
  • See HP for Linux


[edit] DeskJet 990 Cxi

  • Multipage on sheet and duplexing both work


[edit] HP OfficeJet series

  • Very well supported except for the fax capabilities.


[edit] OfficeJet G85 Multi-Function

  • Multipage on sheet and duplexing both work - up 1200 dpi for photo quality - scan works quite well, but need a better OCR program. Uses HPIJS driver with cups, ghostscript, foomatic.


[edit] HP LaserJet series

[edit] HP LaserJet 3300mfp

This is for Laserjet 3330mfp and the print server jetdirect 175x.

Works great when using HPIJS and HPOJ drivers. I used HPIJS + Ghoast script as the driver. However, if using Postscript as driver, printing images will be very slow.

The print server jetdirect 175X connected to my Router (D-Link 624) works perfectly. The only modification i did was in MCC, coofiguring the printer. I inserted the IP address my router assigned to the connecting printer. Printing, scanning works as it should. Never tried the fax through PC though. I simply fax directly from the device.


[edit] HP LaserJet 1300

  • HP provides a PPD file on the installation CD that only has to be placed in /usr/share/cups/model to make the driver available to CUPS. Full 1200x1200 dpi is available and the printer functions as expected. Output is dark and precise. See http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-LaserJet_1300 for additional information and support. Technoslick


[edit] HP LaserJet 6L

  • 10.1 - autodetected during install. Works great.
  • LE2005 - CUPS detected it automatically. No problems.


[edit] HP LaserJet IIIp

  • This is a Postscript printer, so it works well with any UNIX system.


[edit] HP PhotoSmart series

[edit] HP Photosmart 7260

  • HPIJS needed to be updated to 1.5 on my MDK 9.1 install. Believe 9.2 also needs this update. Be sure to print through ptal (rather than straight to USB) if you want 2 way comms (to read memory cards etc.)


[edit] HP All-in-One series (printer/scanner/copier) (HP PSC)

[edit] HP PSC 500

  • Printer should be auto-detected and auto-installed, including scanning, under Mandriva Linux 9.1 and 9.2 . Printerdrake will see it as an HP Officejet R40 and it should work well as auto-configured. You can also choose the printer directly from the menu (PSC 500). Best results with driver 'hpijs'. To scan, use 'scanimage.' DO NOT use 'scannerdrake' (see Printerdrake "How to use this printer" for details).

[edit] HP PSC 1110

  • This is a low cost 3-in-1 colour inkjet printer, scanner and copier. Printerdrake automatically configures the print settings of the 1110 correctly. However, for scanner support, you will need to install the hpioa sane library as well as the xsane GUI application manually.

[edit] HP PSC 1210

[edit] HP PSC 1350

  • This is a slick all-in-one printer/copier/scanner that also includes slots for reading multi-media cards directly. Mandriva Linux 9.2 found the printer and correctly identified it as a printer/scanner, but seems to have gotten confused over what driver to use. I found the correct diver on http://hpoj.sourceforge.net/suplist.shtml (very usefull). See PSC 1350 details
  • This printer is really all plug and play when using Mandriva 10.1 . Just go to MCC and check it! I had to go to MCC just to check whether the scanner was properly set and having a look at partitions I could see that the card reader was already set and running, mounted at /mnt/removable (/dev/sda ), as soon as you insert the card and see the light blinking. The driver (hpijs) was automatically installed.


[edit] HP PSC 1610

  • Printer was auto-detected and installed under Mandriva linux 2005 LE as HP PSC 1600 series.


[edit] HP PSC 2175

  • Printer was auto-detected and installed under 9.2, 10.0 and 10.1 . Uses driver 'hpijs' for best results. Scanning was also setup and installed with same driver during the initial installation. See HP PSC 2175 at www.linuxprinting.org

[edit] Kyocera-Mita

[edit] Kyocera-Mita FS1000+ (b/w Laser)

  • Not recognised during setup in 9.1 but easily configured by PrinterDrake with excellent results (very low TCO)


[edit] Lexmark


[edit] Lexmark Z32

  • Contadictory results from 2 users:
    • Follow exactly the documentation provided by Mandriva. In 9.0 it is doable. In 9.1 upto 10.2 it is easy. B/W printing is good: I did not have problems aligning the cartridges; I never got around to trying colour, but it should work, because I know the printer is capable of it.
    • Have had some issues with this printer in 9.2/10.0 . The cartridges never seem to align properly even with the Mandriva tool included in the System > Configuration > Printing > Lexmark menu. The binary only Lexmark driver is pretty lousy and cannot print using CUPS. Personally, I'd go and buy an EPSON instead.


[edit] Lexmark Z53

  • My Lexmark Z53 has always been a problem child when it comes to CUPS. Same with other Lexmarks I've owned, like the Z11 and the Z22, such that I probably won't ever buy another printer of this brand. Problems I've encountered include:
    • No head alignment tools provided.
    • Default color settings are very poor when compared to a print job from a Windows machine.
    • Not all of the drivers provided actually work with the printer.
    • Default "printable area" settings aren't true to the actual printable area for this device. If you print from some applications, you find that you loose half a line of text at the very top.


[edit] Samsung laser printers

[edit] Samsung ML-1740

Drivers for Linux are available on Samsung's web site. The installation was easy for me on Mandriva 2005LE and 2006.0.

  • Download the driver and untar it
  • su
  • cd "path_to_untared_archive"/image
  • ./setup.sh
  • Follow the instructions to install the driver files
  • linux-config
  • Follow the instructions to configure the printer

The printer will then be accessible through CUPS (and to the Mandriva's configurations tools).

NOTE: CUPS has to be installed BEFORE the installation of Samsung's driver.


[edit] Samsung ML-2010

Drivers for Linux are available on Samsung's web site. The installation was done on Mandriva 2005LE .

  • Download the driver and untar it
  • su
  • cd "path_to_untared_archive"/image
  • ./setup.sh
  • Follow the instructions to install the driver files
  • linux-config
  • Follow the instructions to configure the printer

The printer will then be accessible through CUPS (and to the Mandriva's configurations tools).

NOTE: CUPS has to be installed BEFORE the installation of Samsung's driver.

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