[H-GEN] Colour printer with LInux

[Stuart Longland]

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Aack... HTML...my eyes!! :-)

Duncan Miller wrote:

> I've tried looking for a colour printer at linuxprinting.org. It's
> difficult to find a good printer that is currently available in Brisbane
> that has a linux driver that works "perfectly".
> I want a colour deskjet, HP preferrably, though I will buy Epsom. My
> price range, $150 to (I'm getting desperate) $400.
> Anyone got any ideas on this?

Okay, a few printers I've used:
* Canon BJC-6500	(A3 inkjet, parallel-port & USB 1.1)
	Works fine for Black & White printing, but unfortunately the colours
don't come out right.  Otherwise, it works as expected.  (I'm using the
gimp-print driver IIRC)

* HP LaserJet 2550L	(A4 laser, parallel-port & USB 2.0)
	This printer speaks fluent PostScript, and therefore it should come as
no suprise it works brilliantly with CUPS.  On the driver CD, go hunting
for hpb25506.ppd on the driver CD and copy it to /usr/share/cups/model.
 Then, do the usual config in <http://localhost:631/>.

	I've found the PCL6 driver causes text on an A4 page to be squashed up
onto the area the size of an A6 page, but the PS driver works
flawlessly.  Colour prints come out absolutely supurb. :-)

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