[Leaplist] PostScript SMB Printer for CUPS? -- Dell 3100cn (best sub-$300 PS3 color laser)

[Jason Boxman]

On Wednesday 26 March 2008 13:46, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 11:26 -0400, Jason Boxman wrote:
> > Does anyone have a favorite true PostScript based laser printer?
> > I have a HP LaserJet 1100 now, but since it's not PostScript it can't
> > handle PDF jobs, taking several minutes to print each page.  Mostly that
> > seems to be an artifact of gs-esp taking forever to raster the job, but
> > I can't throw a fast enough computer at the printer for it to be
> > suitable for daily use.

For an inexplicable reason, the same printer now prints PDFs that used to take 
60 seconds or more, per page, on the original Windows XP system, at a rapid 
pace.  I have come full circle.  I rather hate this printer.

I could never reliably get CUPS to print jobs without the printer either 
getting stuck on a page and never 'finishing' or not 'starting' the job or 
producing a few lines of garbage every dozen or so pages.  It's always been 
flawless under Windows.

> That's because the computer isn't the issue, it's the combination of
> printer:
> A.  Intelligence
> B.  Language
> C.  Memory
> D.  Interface
>
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> Which is why I always buy ...
> - Postscript (Level 3 is commonplace now, although Level 2 is just fine)
> - 24MiB minimum for mono, 192MiB minimum for color (A4/Letter)
> - 100Mbit Ethernet (which is commonplace now)

I'll have to see what I can find.  I get the impression printer vendors like 
to discontinue perfectly good models yearly.  Sigh.

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Jason Boxman
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