Tag Archives: printing

Dear lazyweb, a network printer with perfect Linux support?

I’m looking for a good network printer. The only requirements would be that its a laser printer and that it works perfectly in Linux (would be nice if it works from windows as well). My Linux printing experience hasn’t been rosey. From pain in the ass printers like in my last blog post to really [...]

HP LaserJet 1000

Unfortunately not all printers are as plug ‘n play as you would hope. Although it looks really promising when you just plugged it in. If you select add printer in gnome it actually detects the printer. However when you print a test page,.. nothing happens. With the instructions on linuxprinting.org you do get it to [...]

Kyocera network printers with CUPS/Ubuntu

Had to fix up serveral Kyocera Mita KM 1650 KX and Kyocera Mita KM 2550 KX “printers” here. Quite fancy and they support every printing protocol I could imagine, so should be easy right? Unfortunately the documentation is quite scarce. And the model/type of the Kyocera’s on this network were not available in the default [...]