[PLUG] Linux printer info

[Galen Seitz]

John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 20:51:50 -0700
> "Dan Young" <danielmyoung at gmail.com> dijo:
> 
>>>    It appears that linuxprinting.org has morphed into openprinting.org. The
>>> former site had a huge database of printers which listed the drivers, the
>>> degree to which the printer would work under linux, and a host of other
>>> useful information.
>> The latter appears to be largely the same, just wrapped in new CSS.
>>
>> http://openprinting.org/printer_list.cgi appears to have everything
>> linuxprinting.org had.
> 
> That's the site that does not list the Xerox Phaser 7400DN. Xerox specs
> on it say they support several Linux distros, but even if they did not,
> it is reasonably popular and should at least be listed. 


I asked a friend at Xerox about this.  Here's his response:

"The Phaser 7400DN is a PostScript printer, so it's completely
supported by every distro that includes CUPS.  All you need is the
"Postscript Printer Definition" (PPD) file, a text file that describes
paper sizes, trays, etc.  There's a bundle of PPD files (and other
stuff) on the Xerox support site at

http://www.support.xerox.com/go/getfile.asp?Xlang=en_US&XCntry=USA&objid=51395&EULA=0&prodID=7400&Family=Phaser&ripId=&langs=English%20(US)&plats=UNIX&Xtype=download&uType=

I'll mention to the customer support jocks that somebody should update
openprinting.org."


galen