[Printing-user-general] Dell 3010cn

Borries Demeler <[email protected]> Sun, 23 Jul 2006 09:02:48 -0500 (CDT)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.printing.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

So I purchased a Dell 3010cn color laser printer - price is hard to
beat at $284 delivered, print speed, color, USB, network (with remote
lpd daemon) etc.  are very nice. The only problem is that the printer
is for WINDOWS only.

So now I have to print every file to a postscript file and print it out
under vmware with ghostscript - not an ideal solution. So my question is
this: Is there any hope to have this printer work under Linux much like
the original winmodems?

What kind of hacking will be necessary to coax this printer into working
under Linux? Is there some emulation that will work? Firmware upgrade?
I'm wondering if the experts on this list have some ideas I could try out.

-Borries