[GLLUG] linux color laser duplex ethernet

[Tom Schouten]

On 10/28/2011 09:30 PM, Clay Dowling wrote:
> On 10/28/2011 04:17 PM, STeve Andre' wrote:
>> On 10/27/11 11:02, Tom Schouten wrote:
>>> - good linux drivers
>>> - ethernet
>>> - color
>>> - duplex
>>> - large tray
>> PostScript is likely getting harder to find, at least on cheap
>> printers, but it has no equal (and no, PCL though good is not
>> as good as PostScript).
> I can strongly recommend the Konica Minolta Magicolor 1650 EN.  It 
> does great color, duplex, large tray, ethernet and it's a postscript 
> driver.  I have one and love it.  The price is also excellent, better 
> than most of the competition.  The only downside is that it is not a 
> very fast printer.  If you flood it with image data (like 100 page 
> scanned documents) the printing speed slows down to about 30 seconds a 
> page, but normally it's a lot better.
>
> PostScript is actually getting easier to find in printers. Aladdin's 
> commercial GhostScript engine is considerably more affordable to 
> license than Adobe's, and that has fueled more and cheaper PostScript 
> printers.

Thanks Clay,
This seems to be exactly what I'm looking for!

Bill, Steve, Barry,
I've been buying brother printers exclusively and always had a good 
experience until I got a HL2240 last year (for $50!)  From the time 
spent trying to debug CUPS this has turned out to be a very expensive 
printer.  I also had some trouble with the older MFC240C jet .. found a 
bug in the driver.  I'm not the biggest CUPS fan so PostScript would be 
great to give a try.