[GRLUG] Cheap laser printer

[Jordan Hudson]

yeah, the 4100 was a bad machine compared to the 2010 (I bought the 4100 and
returned it) but the 2010 installed really nicely, and it was just a .deb or
.rpm or a tarball. 2010 was just recognized by gnome in ubuntu 5.10
and 6.06automagically.

On 8/13/06, Tim Schmidt <timschmidt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Just to elaborate on Samsung's drivers...  the ones that shipped with
> the SCX-4100 only supported redhat or debian, shipped with their own
> binary lpd, require you to use Samsung's binary GUI configuration
> tool, and don't support some of the features of the printer (the
> highest resolution, some paper settings, etc).  I hear that they've
> shipped a new driver version that at least installs in such a way that
> the stock gnome printer configuration wizard can set things up for
> you, but they're still proprietary, and the printer communication
> protocol (deceptively refered to as S-GDI) is completely undocumented.
>
> Not cool.
>
> That said, most of HP's recent models have nicely working completely
> free drivers, some require a firmware blob to be loaded into the
> printer by hotplug, but that's not too hard to set up.  Kyocera's
> models seem to be either spottily or completely un-supported (although
> I have no experience with them), Konica Minolta seems to have released
> enough information (including PPDs) for completely free drivers, and
> my experience in the past with Lexmarks and Canons has been good.  In
> short, Samsung's are some of the poorest supported printers in Free
> software.  Doing some of my work from mips machines, the Free part is
> _very_ important.  Anyone with a mac or other PPC machine will
> sympathize.
>
> /rant
>
> --tim
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