On 12/06/2010 06:51 PM, Davide Bolcioni wrote: > Greetings, > I am looking for a multifunction (print and scan, fax is a don't care) laser > printer for Fedora 14 (not ink jet). I remembered that HP offered good support > for Linux, but according to the HPLIP pages most recent printers need a > proprietary plugin, and it looks like a trend, so I'm looking elsewhere. Yeup, hplip for the lasers, hpijs for the inkjets.... > I am specifically interested in stuff which doesn't require me to download > proprietary software, turn off SELinux or other shenanigans. Compilation and > configuration, on the other hand, are not a problem. Straight PostScript support? PCL? Both are open but still proprietary. > A friend running Ubuntu suggested me the Samsung SCX-4300 or SCX-4600, is > anybody using them under Fedora 14 or earlier with good results ? Even Samsung lasers require the use of a plugin/driver in order to work properly. It was recently mentioned in the thread "Samsung Laser Printers - proprietary Page Description Language (ML-1665)" that Samsung printers all use SPL (Samsung Printer Language) to talk to their printers. Samsung provides a "Unified Print Driver" which works on Fedora, but it would seem to be another instance of what you are afraid of. OTOH, there is an open source project to support SPLix, and some printers are better supported than others (YMMV). > Thank you in advance, > Davide Bolcioni AFA the scanner support, you are probably looking for scanners that are SANE compliant and will work the the freely available SANE software that Fedora supplies. -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@xxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
