[wellylug] Laser printers

[Andrej]

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:42, David Antliff wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a B/W laser printer that works well with
> Linux and isn't too expensive? I've been looking at the
> Brother HL-5140 but I can't find any linux reviews (nor can I
> find the linux drivers that are supposedly downloadable from
> the Brother website). Ideally I'd like a postscript printer
> but these tend to be expensive (over $1000) and seem to be
> getting rarer.
I haven an ancient Lexmark optra R here, works great.

As for the model you're looking at,  I'd say that it should be
allright since pretty much all other models from the HL
series supposedly work perfectly (according to 
linuxprinting.org).


> How do the network-enabled ones work with Linux? They still
> require drivers on the workstation presumably?
Yes, just the transport is different. lpt:// vs. socket://

Cheers,
Andrej