I haven't tried any colour laser printers with the Amiga personally, but look for printers that understand postscript. Most postscript printers should work with the Amiga Postscrpit printer drivers, whereas the other printer drivers are mostly for old printers that are no longer available.
I haven't tried any colour laser printers with the Amiga personally, but look for printers that understand postscript. Most postscript printers should work with the Amiga Postscrpit printer drivers, whereas the other printer drivers are mostly for old printers that are no longer available.
Hans
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Hi Hans,
Thanks for the reply, yeah I got that much from the forums. The problem is that I haven?t found one manufacturer?s website that states if the printer is able to do postscript.
I was hoping that someone may have done all the hardwork for me and have one working.
Thanks for the reply, yeah I got that much from the forums. The problem is that I haven?t found one manufacturer?s website that states if the printer is able to do postscript.
Strange, I thought that they did. I know that most HP lasers do, and come with both PCL and PS drivers.
I have a Lexmark C534DN. Great printer. I believe most of the Lexmark lasers (except possibly very low-end) support Postscript.
Unfortunately, I do not have an OS4.1 system to test it with.
If you are interested someone could always print the postscript to a file and send it to me. I could send it to the printer and look at the result. Just be sure to set it up for 8.5x11 paper size.
hmm .. I only quickly checked HP and Kyocera pages and both DO state if the printer supports Postscript along with the usual PCL stuff..
E.g. the Kyocera FS-C5100DN is on my wishlist (actually the 5200, but it's basically the same printer), it supports Postscript (see Specification/Emulation on the website), but as I don't own it yet, I can't tell if it really works with AmigaOS.
My Xerox Phaser 8560 works great, albeit it's not a laser but a solid ink printer. I would hardly go back to laser, this thing has been cheeper, cleaner and more reliable for me.
As Hans states it is a postcript 3 printer, it can print in colour only via postscript. If you print via a laserjet driver it prints in greyscale. It has parallel, usb, and ethernet connections. In fact my A1 is connected via parallel, and my Imac is connected via usb at the same time. I understand the HP2820 is an updated version of the 2550, and uses the same media. If I was you I would look at HP Printers site.
Strange, I thought that they did. I know that most HP lasers do, and come with both PCL and PS drivers.
Swoop has proven me wrong with one model of HP. But when I've looked into the market in the past (purchased a Konica-Minolta Magicolor 2450 and now a Xerox 6180 DN), MOST of the HP's I looked at at the time of those purchases actually came with a software emulation of Postscript which shipped in the printer box via a CD. "Windoze Only" for THAT kind of Postscript!
Both the Minolta and the Xerox have worked well, connected to the A1 via the LAN using ethernet.
Paul
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I bought a Samsung CLP-350N. It has Ethernet connection, so it sits on our LAN at home where all the PCs and the Amigas can use it. It understands Postscript and I simply use the Postscript driver in the Printer prefs.
I'm using lpr.device as the driver for the network printer, it's easy to set up once you get the files and I've never had a moment's trouble with it.
It cost only AU$400 (IIRC), and that's the same price that I paid for my first Epson 9-pin dot matrix printer 20+ years ago.
Strange, I thought that they did. I know that most HP lasers do, and come with both PCL and PS drivers.
Swoop has proven me wrong with one model of HP. But when I've looked into the market in the past (purchased a Konica-Minolta Magicolor 2450 and now a Xerox 6180 DN), MOST of the HP's I looked at at the time of those purchases actually came with a software emulation of Postscript which shipped in the printer box via a CD. "Windoze Only" for THAT kind of Postscript!
Both the Minolta and the Xerox have worked well, connected to the A1 via the LAN using ethernet.
Paul
That sounds rather fishy to me, because Windows printer drivers take graphics lib calls, and translate them to the printer's own language. Windows printer drivers don't take postscript as input directly, so there is no reason to emulate postscript. Possibly the postscript support is incomplete for some models (also sounds fishy to me)? I have used an HP 5050 PS printer driver to generate postscript and EPS files by capturing their output; Ghostscript never complained once that the postscript was wrong.
I used a brother MFC 9450CDN coulor laser all in one, to make it short (tell me if you need detailed infos or search on other forums):
works as printer in colour using WB Postscript driver. Printout of Photos is a bit dark though, because WB PS driver has no Gamma or colour correction. I will get an Epson CX21nf next days/week I report on that one as well...
Sorry for the mini thread hijack but how did you over come printing pdfs. I only ever get the first page then triangular warning light starts flashing amber.
@tldaley
As a side note it possible to use the parallel & usb only versions of the hp2550 (cheaper and easier to get used) with lpr.device and a dlink dp300u lan printer server if you want the printer in another room. The DP300U can be confiured using OWB.
Xerox Phaser 6180N, networked using lpr.device in socket mode (raw). No issues. Afair, already 2 yrs.
"the expression, 'atonal music,' is most unfortunate--it is on a par with calling flying 'the art of not falling,' or swimming 'the art of not drowning.'. A. Schoenberg
Sorry for the mini thread hijack but how did you over come printing pdfs. I only ever get the first page then triangular warning light starts flashing amber.
Hey!! on page 97. RTFM. - I enjoyed that, I usually get it said to me.
When the attention light is flashing (triangle symbol) and the go light (green light above the big green button) is on the printer stops printing, and it actually means "ATTENTION with the ability to continue". ie, if you press the green button it will print the next page. Unfortunatley you have to keep pressing the green button between pages until all pages have been printed. Basically the printer is saying the print media is the wrong size, and pressing the go button tells it to continue.
From the Manual: Quote:
Attention with Ability to Continue The Attention light is blinking and the Go light is on. The printer stops printing. The message appears in these situations:
Manual feed with pause. Someone sent a manual feed job and the printer is waiting for the special print media. Load print media into tray 1, and if the printer does not begin printing after the pages are reloaded, press (GO). Or, just press (GO) to try to print from another tray.
Manual two-sided printing. The printer has finished printing the first side of a manual duplex job, and the printer is waiting for someone to reload the pages so it can print the second side. Press (GO) to continue printing.
Paper out in the selected tray. Someone is trying to print by Source (tray) and no print media is in the selected tray. Add print media to that tray to print from it. Or, press (GO) to try to print from another tray. The printer continues printing.
Print media is the wrong size. The media type does not match the print media that is in the tray. Load the correct size and press (GO). The printer continues printing.
Continuable state. Press (GO) for the printer to attempt to recover from the error and print whatever data it can. If successful, the printer completes the job while the Ready light blinks. If unsuccessful, the
Attention with Ability to Continue message persists. Press (CANCEL JOB) to cancel the print job. If the problem has been resolved, the printer returns to the Ready state (Ready light on).
I am also looking to get a Xerox Phaser 6180MFP. Some questions: 1. Is Photoprint also to dark ? (compared to e.g. windows print out)
It isn't a photo printer. And printoutis fine on either, Linux/AOS4.1
Quote:
@All 2. Anybody using a All-In-One colour laser here ?
We have one at work. It can scan to samba share or ftp server., and into email (didn't test this option, we use ftp only)
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