Hello.
I'm planning to buy a laser black & white printer to use with my old PC which has Slackware 14.2 installed. Which model will be the best choice? Any recommendations and advices are welcomed. (I'm looking to buy a brand new printer from the store, not the used one)
Thank you

I think this laser printer might work : https://linux-hardware.org/?id=usb:413c-5230
I have not tried it. But supports the driver on both 14.2 and 15.0

Drivers are not included in kernel.

HP (Hewlett-Packard) printers are usually well supported on Linux.

Dell does not sell printers anymore. I also suggest HP.

I have a very old HP P2015 black/white laser printer that I've had for many years. It works well on Slackware 14.2 and Slackware 15.0. This site may help you. The site hasn't been updated in a few years.

https://haydenjames.io/finding-linux...ible-printers/

I have a Brother laser printer which works well on both 14.2 and 15.0 if you install 32-bit glibc from multilib. It's a pure printer, no scanning.

Kyocera are low maintenance.

As far as general advice is concerned, I think if you buy an ethernet laser printer with Postscript and/or PCL pretty much any Linux or BSD should support it.

Most printers come with emulated Postscript, meaning the manufacturer installs a language emulating the original, Adobe Postscript, to save costs. But I've heard that Brother and Kyocera Postscript emulation is very good. As far as I can tell Xerox printers come with the original -- Adobe Postscript. Given that their cheapest B+W laser printers are < 200 EUR I find that hard to believe, since the licensing would make them uneconomical.

linyx ---

How much do you expect to print ?

If you're going to print a lot of pages, find a Postscript or PDF Network printer with the best price per page ( measured wrt the Toner Cartridges ).

If you expect to do very little printing then shop for the least expensive printer.

I steer clear of GDI Printers in either case.

We used to call GDI Printers WinPrinters -- Printers without a CPU where the OS does the work and the printer simply puts dots on paper.

Needless to say, WinPrinters will be best supported on Windows or OSX and Linux can be iffy.

This is a pretty good site for selecting a Linux Printer: https://www.openprinting.org/printers

So ... do your shopping by price per page per toner cartridge or price per printer, then look up the selection(s) at openprinting.org ...


HTH

-- kjh

I've never had a problem installing and using Brother printers (pure or multifunction) on 14.2 and 15.

altho list contains inkjets here are printers supported by the Gutenprint drivers

http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/p_...d_Printers.php

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In my experience, HP has the best Linux support. You can check the HPLIP site for a list of supported printers.

For other makes, the Open Printing database may be helpful.

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Thanks, everyone!
kjhambrick, I am planning to print from 10 to 100 documents (pages) per month. Not many pages, but I need them to be in good quality.

I have a Brother HL-L2300D laser black and white printer.
It works both in 14.2 and 15.0.
The driver is 32-bit.
So multilib should be installed.

Then any of the Manufacturers mentioned here can work.

I won't be much help with recent makes and models because I am still running a 20-year old Hp LaserJet 4200 and my wife is still using a USB Hp LaserJet 1320

Google returns lots of sites listing recent linux compatible printers.

Do your shopping and then check the printer database and make a choice.

These days, Linux Printing can be as simple as buy it, plug it in, set it up via https://localhost:631 and print.

-- kjh

HP printers have always worked well with <= 14.2. Recently some adjustments are necessary to make hplip work well, at least with some models (for me, with older laserjet P1005 and P1102, but I guess you won't find these models anymore). See below:

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...on-4175647505/