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Worked out of the box on FC3, using CUPS PCL 6 / PCL XL driver. Tested from Open Office, nedit, and Firefox, and the CUPS test page. Printed beautifully at 600x600.Supposedly will print up to 2400 or 1200 Image Quality ... Not sure why anyone would want to do that on a monochrome printer. Has some sort of Redhat & Suse certification. Didn't even try to find the native driver, tho. My initial reaction is very good. If I can edit this document, I'll add Debian and USB connection experience with my laptop.
Shipped with standard usb and parallel inputs, 250 sheet input tray, 200mhz processor, 16MB memory. No cables. Supposedly network ready with an optional card. Didn't get that.
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $100.00 | Rating: 7
Kernel (uname -r):
2.6.8-2
Distribution:
FC3 - Debian (Sarge)
Install easy on both Fedora (parallel) & Debian (usb-laptop). Had some problems with Debian install - unreliable printing images - sometimes works, sometimes not. Trying to print from either Mozilla or Firefox closes the browser window, and no print. Regular text Douments, even with images and fancy formatting work fine, tho. Fedora works fine from any document source ... On either system, I can only get 600x600, Changing Printer Properties to 1200 made no difference. ... Not sure if usb connection is partly to blame for Debian problems. When I get a chance to test the laptop with parallel, I'll report if it makes significant improvment. For the price ($100 after rebate), this is a great printer. Shipped with 1500 pages of toner. but a 2500 sheet refill is $80. Maybe by the time I need one, I'll find a better price.
Will also get around to testing it on Windows one of these days.
As mentioned above ... Using CUPS generic PCL6 driver on Linux. Lexmark supplies a Redhat & Suse compatible driver, but I suspect it's the same PCL driver I'm using. Didn't try, tho. It's a .rpm, and I'm not sure it would work on FC3 ... Works plenty good to suit me now, and at the moment, I'm not inclined to mess with it.
I doubt all these driver packages were necessary; however I could not add it without having hal-cups-utils installed. I didn't have to mess around with any module blocking or anything.
With the cups daemon started, added it through the CUPS web interface as Lexmark E230 Foomatic/pxlmono, works just fine. Haven't tried double-sided yet.
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