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21. Printers/Plotters

All printers and plotters connected to the parallel or serial port should work. Alas, some manufacturers have created Windows 95 only printers. Check Appendix E for Linux incompatible hardware.

• HP LaserJet 4 series - free-lj4, printing modes control program
  ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/printing/free-lj4-1.1p1.tar.gz
• BiTronics parallel port interface
  ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/misc/bt-ALPHA-0.0.1.module.patch.gz
• Epson Stylus Color 850. Use Magicfilter with either of the filters 'stylus800-filter', 'stylus_color_360dpi-filter' or 'stylus_color_720dpi-filter'.

21.1 Ghostscript

Many Linux programs output PostScript files. Non-PostScript printers can emulate PostScript Level 2 using Ghostscript.

• Ghostscript
  ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/pub/ghost/aladdin/

Ghostscript 5.1 supported printers

• Apple Imagewriter
• Apple Dot Matrix printer
• Apple StyleWriter 2x00 (bjc600)
• Brother HL-660 (ljet4)
• C. Itoh M8510
• Canon BubbleJet BJ10e, BJ20 (bj10e)
• Canon BubbleJet BJ100, BJ200, BJC-210 (B/W only), BJC-240 (B/W only), BJC-250 (B/W only), BJC-70 (B/W only) (bj200)
• Canon BubbleJet BJC-600, BJC-610, BJC-4000, BJC-4100 (B/W only), BJC-4200, BJC-4300, BJC-4400, BJC-4550, BJC-210, BJC-450, MultiPASS C2500, BJC-240, BJC-70 (bjc600)
• Canon BubbleJet BJC-800, BJC-7000 (bjc800)
• Canon Bubblejet BJC-610 (uniprint)
• Canon LBP-8II, LIPS III
• DEC LA50/70/75/75plus
• DEC LN03, LJ250 (decl250)
• Epson 9 pin, 24 pin, LQ series, AP3250
• Epson Stylus Color/Color II/400/500/600/800 (stcolor)
• Epson Stylus Color/Color II/500/600/800/1520 (uniprint)
• Fujitsu 3400,2400,1200
• HP 2563B
• HP DesignJet 650C
• HP DeskJet, Deskjet Plus (deskjet)
• HP Deskjet 500, Deskjet Portable (djet500)
• HP Deskjet 500C (cdeskjet)
• HP Deskjet 550C (uniprint)
• HP DeskJet 400/500C/520C/540C/690C/693C (cdj500)
• HP DeskJet 550C/560C/600/660C/660Cse/682C/683C/693C/694C/695C/850/870Cse (cdj550)
• HP DeskJet 850/855/870Cse/870Cxi/890C/672C/680/1100C (cdj850)
• HP DeskJet 500C/510/520/5540C/693C printing black only (cdjmono)
• HP DeskJet 600 (lj4dith)
• HP DeskJet 600/870Cse, LaserJet 5/5L/6L (ljet4)
• HP Deskjet 600/1200C/1600C (pjxl300)
• HP Deskjet 500/500C/510/520/540/550C/560C/850C/855C and other PCL3 printers
  ftp:ftp.pdb.sni.de/pub/utilities/misc/hpdj-2.1.tar.gz
• HP Deskjet 720, 820 and 1000 series
  http://www.rpi.edu/~normat/technical/ppa
• HP Paintjet (pjtest)
• HP Paintjet XL (pjxltest)
• HP PaintJet XL300 (pjxl300)
• HP LaserJet/Plus/II/III/4/5/6
• IBM 3853 Jetprinter color
• IBM Proprinter
• Imagen ImPress
• Lexmark Optra E+ (ljet4)
• Mitsubishi CP50 color
• NEC P6/P6+/P60
• NEC Pinwriter P2X (uniprint)
• NEC SuperScript 860 (ljetplus)
• Oki OL410ex LED (ljet4)
• Okidata MicroLine 182
• Ricoh 4081/6000 (r4081)
• SPARCprinter
• StarJet 48 inkjet printer
• Tektronix 4693d color 2/4/8 bit
• Tektronix 4695/4696 inkjet plotter
• Xerox XES printers (2700, 3700, 4045, etc.)

Alpha, Beta drivers

• Epson Stylus Color 440