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From: Andrew Gideon on 10 Dec 2006 09:53 I've been looking at the 2600n for home. But, having just seen it in the store (next to other printers), it seems a little bulky. I'm wondering if there's something about as capable but smaller. Needed are: * Network connected * Postscript * Color * Laser (or at least w/o the need to use the printer every so often, as with ink-jet) * Decent speed, but need not be terribly fast This printer will be used infrequently. But when it's used, I'd like it to work well. Printing to it will be Linux machines (Fedora Core 3 and later) and OSX. I'd like it to do a decent job on photo-images, but it need not be "great" (we've a dedicated photo printer for the rare cases where we need "great"). Any suggestions? Thanks... Andrew
From: ray on 10 Dec 2006 10:57 On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 09:53:21 -0500, Andrew Gideon wrote: > > I've been looking at the 2600n for home. But, having just seen it in the > store (next to other printers), it seems a little bulky. I'm wondering if > there's something about as capable but smaller. Needed are: > > * Network connected > * Postscript It is incredibly difficult to get a printer that runs native postscript - and they are expensive. Most run PS as an emulation layer over their native language and are much slower as a result - best to use the native language instead. > * Color > * Laser (or at least w/o the need to use the printer every so > often, as with ink-jet) That used to be the case - seems not to be any more. I have left modern inkjets unused for several months with no ill effects. > * Decent speed, but need not be terribly fast By what criteria? Pages per minute means virtually nothing - it rates how fast you can spew out 50 copies of the same page. What really matters most to the vast majority of uses is the one page render time which depends primarily on the speed of the printer's cpu and whether it's running a native language like PCL or an emulation layer on top of that, like PostScript. > > This printer will be used infrequently. But when it's used, I'd like it > to work well. Printing to it will be Linux machines (Fedora Core 3 and > later) and OSX. I'd like it to do a decent job on photo-images, but it > need not be "great" (we've a dedicated photo printer for the rare cases > where we need "great"). That's good, because color lasers don't do a great job on photos. Several people make printers with a high degree of Linux compatibility - I'd start by checking HP, Epson and Brother and possibly Samsung. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks... > > Andrew
From: General Schvantzkoph on 10 Dec 2006 11:06 On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 09:53:21 -0500, Andrew Gideon wrote: > I've been looking at the 2600n for home. But, having just seen it in the > store (next to other printers), it seems a little bulky. I'm wondering if > there's something about as capable but smaller. Needed are: > > * Network connected > * Postscript > * Color > * Laser (or at least w/o the need to use the printer every so > often, as with ink-jet) > * Decent speed, but need not be terribly fast > > This printer will be used infrequently. But when it's used, I'd like it > to work well. Printing to it will be Linux machines (Fedora Core 3 and > later) and OSX. I'd like it to do a decent job on photo-images, but it > need not be "great" (we've a dedicated photo printer for the rare cases > where we need "great"). > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks... > > Andrew As long as you can place the printer within the reach of any of your Linux machines it doesn't need it's own network connection, just let the Linux box handle the sharing. Anything that HP builds will work fine with Linux.
From: Henrik Carlqvist on 10 Dec 2006 14:07 General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >> I've been looking at the 2600n for home. But, having just seen it in >> the store (next to other printers), it seems a little bulky. Color lasers usually are rather big. >> I'm wondering if there's something about as capable but smaller. >> Needed are: >> >> * Network connected >> * Postscript >> * Color Unfortunately I don't think the 2600n even has emulated postscript. Going up to the more expensive 3600n would give you emulated postscript. I think that the 2600 series was supposed to replace the cheap 2550 series. The cheap 2550 series had emulated postscript, but I think that was lost with 2600. However, I have no experience from 2600 myself, only from 2550. regards Henrik -- The address in the header is only to prevent spam. My real address is: hc8(at)uthyres.com Examples of addresses which go to spammers: root(a)variousus.net root(a)localhost
From: Dances With Crows on 10 Dec 2006 14:39 On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 20:07:28 +0100, Henrik Carlqvist staggered into the Black Sun and said: > General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >>> I've been looking at the 2600n for home. I'm wondering if there's >>> something about as capable but smaller. Needed are: >>> Network connected, Postscript, color > Unfortunately I don't think the 2600n even has emulated postscript. > Going up to the more expensive 3600n would give you emulated > postscript. If you mean the HP 3600n, then no, it doesn't do PostScript. The HP 3200* and HP 3800* do, but they're more expensive (duh). Like another poster said, not much does PostScript these days. The HP 3600n is, OTOH, well-supported on Linux with a recent version of hplip. It ain't no thang to connect an HP 3600 to a switch (or directly to a Linux machine via USB) and have CUPS make that HP 3600 available to whatever wants to speak PostScript. NOTE: Read the directions on linuxprinting.org , and make sure that hplip was built with the "snmp" USE flag on a Gentoo system. Without that flag, none of the hputils will talk to an Ethernet-connected printer. -- Seemingly ordinary humans transform into rage-fueled sarcasm dispensers. I love it! --Patrick Shaughnessy Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
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