[SATLUG] Re: [XCSSA] Re: color network laser printer at Newegg for

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On Friday 08 September 2006 13:14, Borries Demeler wrote:
> I have a Dell 3010cn and it has a host-based GDI printer system only, no
> PCL6 afaik. If you have a 3010cn, please tell me what driver you use to
> print to it.

Oo.. sorry.. I have the 3000cn which IS PCL6. More info here:
	http://www.mit.edu/~jik/3000cn/

Is the 3010cn really GDI? Ahh.. yes it is!  Here's the info on it...
http://lists.freestandards.org/pipermail/printing-user-general/2006/008568.html

Wow.. That sucks... sorry about that last post...

> The printer works fine (I paid $270), and the quality is not bad at all,
> but I'll have to print from ghostview running on Windows under VMWare,

Ouch!

If you can sell it to some Windowz Johnny.. then get yourself a 3000cn:
	http://tinyurl.com/nyjks

That would be best.

> which is a real pain. I'd rather print directly from Linux. So any pointers
> on how to make this printer work would be more than welcome.

On Linux w/the 3000cn (in CUPS) I use the pxlmono driver.  

Tweeks