Hi, I want to buy a new color laser printer for home using. Because I know, that HP is very linux friendly, I have started look for some type of HP. But I’m very sad, because I can’t find the type, that is supported! ( I mean type, which is possible to buy now in my region ) HP Color Laserjet Pro cp1025, 1525 ( n,nw ) are not supported by Printer List | OpenPrinting - The Linux Foundation and by HP Linux Imaging and Printing too. cp 2025 yes, but it is not suitable for me. Please, can I believe this websites? Have anybody experiences with this models? On official websites of HP the cp1525 has support on opensuse 11.2 ( but why not on 12.1… driver is in kernel… I suppose = can I risk and buy this model? )
Thank you very much for your advice.
PS.: Should I “google” for other brand ( Epson, Brother, Canon… ) for my 12.1?
If hp is not available, your next option could be brother.
Too bad I can’t recommend it 100% because I haven’t
tested a brother laser printer. There is one in our house
recently bought by my son, though it is listed in their site to work in
linux but I have not try it, he is using it on mac.
On 2012-03-19 23:36, vaon wrote:
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> Hi, I want to buy a new color laser printer for home using. Because I
> know, that HP is very linux friendly, I have started look for some type
> of HP. But I’m very sad, because I can’t find the type, that is
> supported! ( I mean type, which is possible to buy now in my region ) HP
> Color Laserjet Pro cp1025, 1525 ( n,nw ) are not supported by ‘Printer
> List | OpenPrinting - The Linux Foundation’
I have a CP1515n, aka 1510. Works fine out of the box. It is not the
cheapest, but I love it. Maybe similar to yours, dunno.
In general, any postscript capable printer works in Linux just fine.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
The OP is explicitly asking about 12.1 and says that 11.2 is stated to
be supported. That’s entirely consistent with what the spec says,
AFAICT. It says nothing about support under 12.1.
vaon,
HP are pretty good and generally work. There’s something to be careful
about when buying printers though. In the spec of the CP1025, under
STANDARD PRINT LANGUAGES, it says “Host-based”. That’s bad news. It
means that the printer relies on software installed in the ‘host’
computer to work at all. So it is absolutely critical that you ensure
there is a driver for the exact version of the operating system you want
to use. Or at least that you test it, or buy the printer on sale-or-return.
By contrast, in the spec of the CP1525 (which is what I guess you meant
when you said 1525) at http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/18972-18972-3328060-15077-3328070-4052975.html?dnr=1
under “Print languages, standard” it says “HP PCL 6, HP PCL 5c, HP
postscript level 3 emulation”. That’s much better. It means the printer
has enough intelligence to work without outside help. Also, under
“Connectivity, standard” it says “1 Hi-Speed USB 2.0; 1 Fast Ethernet
10/100; 1 WiFi 802.11 b/g/n”. That means it should work out of the box
with pretty much any computer system.
So I would buy the CP1525 in preference to the CP1025.
> HP are pretty good and generally work. There’s something to be careful
> about when buying printers though. In the spec of the CP1025, under
> STANDARD PRINT LANGUAGES, it says “Host-based”. That’s bad news.
Good point. I would never knowingly buy a “host based” printer. It maybe
supported for the current OS version, and not for the next, as the
manufacturer ships newer models.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
to djh-novell: Thank you very much for very useful and very important information for me. Not only for this buying. Of course I mean HP Color LaserJet Pro CP1525nw. So I will try cp1525 and I will hope …
I have bought it and it works perfectly!! However not out of the box. System has detected it but no driver. Pop up window “try to find driver manually”. This is useless, because there is no driver in this list for this type ( like on HP Linux Imaging and Printing ). There is a magic box in the YaST - “hplips setup”. One click… automatic setup/choice of the right driver… OK … and it is done.
This is cp1525nw. But I can’t believe it, when I’m looking on your screen. I don’t understand, because I was looking many times ( maybe 20 x ) at this website!! How it is possible? I’m thinking… Answer…I was looking strictly according to name of this printer - HP Color LaserJet pro cp1525nw ( this is official name in my region ). So I have voted Color LaserJet/Color LaserJet MFP. But you have posted screen, where it is!! So I’m looking, looking and looking for…and I find this printer under LaserJet/LaserJet MFP/Mopier. You are right = I missed it! My mistake. I’m very sorry. Thank you very much again for your help and time.
