Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $120.00 | Rating: 3
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.11-8mdk
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Distribution:
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Mandriva 2005 LE Club Edition
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It is *said* to be Linux compatible, BUT...
First, the Printer worked but in a unefficient way :
I did try all of the 3 drivers present no Mandriva DVD.
- Problem n.1 is that only first page will print, then i'd have to press the "Print" (green) button on the LaserJet 1010 for it to print additional pages.
- Problem n.2 : Sometimes it happens that the printer stops working and reports the error "Unsupported Personality: PCL". (see linuxprinting.org report below).
- Problem n.3 : LaserJet 1010 simply won't work any more after uninstalling / rebooting / reinstalling the driver !
Linuxprinting.org report :
> the new LaserJet 1010/1012 series seems not to be absolutely
> compatible with older HP printers or it has a firmware bug.
> Sometimes it happens that the printer stops working and reports
> the error "Unsupported Personality: PCL". It only continues working
> when one kills the job and power-cycles the printer.
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> The problem of the "Unsupported Personality: PCL" was finally solved
> by Carl Michal (michal at physics dot ubc dot ca). By analyzing the
> output of the Windows driver he found out that after the BeginSession
> operator in the beginning of a PCL 6 job a special sequence of 8 bytes
> has to be added. He added it by a filter to the output of GhostScript's
> "pxlmono" driver and from then on the printer worked.
I'll try "pxlmono" driver & eventually update Kernel to 2.6.11-10mdk this afternoon at my client's desktop and report any improvment right here.
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