Any experience with these laserjet printers?

lduperval · Apprentice Joined: 14 Jun 2003 Posts: 189

Hi,

Does anyone have experience with these printers? I am looking to replace my inkjets with a laser printer. I will be prinintg mostly text with certain color prints, once in a while. I don't plan n printing mqany photos, but who knows?

The printers I am considering are:

- HP Laserjet 2600n for the Ethernet connection. It comes with full (instead of half-full) toner cartridges. However, it seems to be a bit pricey per page print.

- Samsung CLP 510 for duplexing and price. However the toner cartridges are chipped so the printer actually counts how many pages you print and even if there is ink left, it won't let you print anymore.

- Minolta colorimage 2400w because I saw a printout and it seemed pretty vibrant (especially compared to the HP). But I see the dreaded "windows-only" tag associated with it

- Dell c3100 because while searching for info on the above printers, this one was mentioned many times as being "better" than the rest in its class.

Any comments?

Thanks,

L

simon_irl · Guru Joined: 07 Oct 2004 Posts: 403 Location: New Zealand

have you checked linuxprinting.org? all the printers i've set up in gentoo have been accurately reviewed there...including the HP Laserjet 1000 "windows only" printer, which works very nicely in linux. "windows only" is definitely a worry, but you don't necessarily need a good postscript printer to get good print results...even winprinters can be fine if someone's hacked up a decent driver.

linuxtuxhellsinki · l33t Joined: 15 Nov 2004 Posts: 700 Location: Hellsinki

We've HP Color LaserJet 2550 here in our company and it works perfectly with cups (it's ps)

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NTT · Apprentice Joined: 26 Dec 2002 Posts: 188

I'm using a HP LaserJet 2100. Its good. Both parallel and JetDirect work fine. Most (all?) HP laserprinters de PCL5/6 and work like a charm.
Price per page is very good, especially when compared to color inkjet printers doing black and while (thats why I moved from inkjet to lasers for home printing).

lduperval · Apprentice Joined: 14 Jun 2003 Posts: 189

Yes, I have checked linuxprinting.org and cups.org. The only driver listed is the Minolta and it is rated "Mostly". That's the reason I'm asking here (sorry for not mentioning it in my initial post). Since none of the other three are listed, I don't want to end up with a big surprise where nothing works as expected.

These models are all fairly new (less than 9 months) and I can't find much data on Linux users who have tried them.

L

NTT · Apprentice Joined: 26 Dec 2002 Posts: 188

I quick google just learned my that the " Minolta colorimage 2400w " support (enhanced) PCL6. The Samsung doesn't. On the Dell i cant find any information.

I'd go with the Minolta, or the HP, as printers supporting PostScript and/or PCL are compatible with anything out there, unlike the GDI driven printers. Dont bet on the samsung, its probably a GDI device, and thus only works with windows.

Just find out the languages the printer supports, if it says PCL or postscript somewhere in the manual, its safe. If it says GDI, stay away.

lduperval · Apprentice Joined: 14 Jun 2003 Posts: 189

Ahhh! Good to know. I'll keep that in mind.

Thanks!

L

rapsure · Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 10:30 pm Post subject: Printers

I have the Samsung CLP-510N. The printer does work in Linux, but the driver support isn't as nice as the Windows driver. The printer is a GDI printer, but Samsung supports the printer under Linux. I would recommend the Samsung CLP-550 because it is a postscript printer. The quality is good, and Samsung provides the PPD file for cups.
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joehack · Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 10:01 pm Post subject:

Hi

I'm running a Samsung CLP 550n. This printer was not a lot more expensive then the 510 but offers PS3 and a nic.
The installation was really straight forward. The printer ran within 10 minutes.

Regards,
Jochen

Cocker68 · Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 8:12 am Post subject: Samsung CLP-510

sven_sol · Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 11:12 am Post subject:

We'd been running a HP2500 for a while, and had no end of prblems with it printing from linux, Windows too was a bit of a problem,so we recon we may have has a dodgy printer (even tough we had several engineers out tro try and fix it)

We tried the Samsung, not too bad, but wasn't what we were after either, quailty and speed didnt match what was promised.

Finally bought the Oki 5450DN. Not one problem! Works fast, resolution is great and the colour matching is spot on! Might be a bit out of the price range your where looking at (Can't beat Samsung for features/price)
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raaf · Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 8:09 pm Post subject: Re: Samsung CLP-510

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artbody · Guru Joined: 15 Sep 2006 Posts: 494 Location: LB

I have the Samsung CLP-510N too

nice printer
but to find the driversoftware i needed to much time
so here you lll find
http://org.downloadcenter.samsung.com/downloadfile/ContentsFile.aspx?CDSite=us&CttFileID=264040&CDCttType=DR&ModelType=N&ModelName=CLP-510N&VPath=DR/200707/20070720172411796_UnifiedLinuxDriver.tar.gz
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Kasumi_Ninja · Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 4:11 pm Post subject:

The Samsung CLP-510N works fine with the splix drivers. Emerge splix is all it takes to use them.
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Hi,

I just bought a Samsung CLP 300. Those are really cheap now. All I had to do is:

drescherjm · Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 4:22 am Post subject: