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Alps MD-1000 Color D Thermal transfer md2k Proprietary 1200 600
http://plaza26.mbn.or.jp/~higamasa/gdevmd2k/ F Appears
to operate to full spec with this Ghostscript driver, but as the documentation is in Japanese
I'm not sure.
Alps MD-1300 Color D Thermal transfer md2k Proprietary 1200 600
http://plaza26.mbn.or.jp/~higamasa/gdevmd2k/ F Also su
pports dye sublimation\n Appears to be supported by md2k Ghostscript driver, but since docum
entation is in Japanese I'm a little fuzzy on the details.
Alps MD-2000 Color D Thermal transfer md2k Proprietary
http://plaza26.mbn.or.jp/~higamasa/gdevmd2k/ F Listed
as supported in the driver documentation.
Alps MD-4000 Color D Dye Sublimation md2k Proprietary http://
plaza26.mbn.or.jp/~higamasa/gdevmd2k/ F Listed as suppo
rted at 300/600/12x6 dpi in the driver documentation.\nI have not found any other reference to
this printer.
Alps MD-5000 Color D Thermal transfer md5k Proprietary 2400 2400
http://plaza26.mbn.or.jp/~higamasa/gdevmd2k/ F Dye sub
limation option available.\n This driver appears to support 1200x600, 600, and 300dpi operat
ion on a variety of papers.\nUnfortunately it is documented in Japanese.
Apple 12/640ps BW B Laser N/A PostScript 600 600 N/A
T No specific Linux driver available\nworks fine with Gen
eric Postscript\nDriver from parallel port, not sure\nif it works from the ethernet.
Apple Dot Matrix BW A Dot Matrix appledmp Proprietary 120
72 http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/printer.html T

Apple ImageWriter LQ BW A Dot Matrix iwlq Proprietary 320 216
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/printer.html T
Apple ImageWriter high-res BW A Dot Matrix iwhi Proprietary 120
144 http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/printer.html T

Apple ImageWriter low-res BW A Dot Matrix iwlo Proprietary 120
72 http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/printer.html T

Apple LaserWriter 16/600 BW A Laser N/A PostScript 600 600
N/A T
Apple LaserWriter IINTX BW A Laser N/A PostScript 300 300
N/A F Set Switch 1 and 2 down, all others up, use ser
ial connection at 9600 baud with XON/XOFF handshaking. Send the printer postscript. Apple's w
eb pages have good information on switch settings, and even a suggested printcap file. Search
for "LaserWriter AND unix" in thier Older Hardware section.
Apple LaserWriter Select 360 BW A Laser ljet2p PostScript 300 300
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/printer.html T No luck
with any apple drivers, however\nI selected HPLaserJet IId/IIp/III with\nTIFF Compression in P
rinttool. Work great.
Apple StyleWriter 2500 Color B Ink Jet N/A Proprietary 360 360
N/A T Color is a bit dark, but all else \nworks. Pap
er out and jammed errors\nare handled better than MacOS!
Avery Personal Label Printer BW B Thermal pbm2lwxl Proprietary 128
128 http://www.freelabs.com/~whitis/software/pbm2lwxl/ F
OEM LabelWriter? 1.5 inch wide label printer; driver by Mark Whitis Known to work
with minor glitches; see driver's web page.
Avery Personal Label Printer+ BW A Thermal pbm2lwxl Proprietary 192
192 http://www.freelabs.com/~whitis/software/pbm2lwxl/ F
OEM LabelWriter? 2.25 inch label printer; driver by Mark Whitis Should work; unte
sted
Brother HJ-400 BW B Ink Jet lq850 ESC/P 360 360 http://www.cs.wisc.edu/
~ghost/printer.html T The lq850 driver doesn't come w
ith RedHat by default.\n The epson driver can work at 180x180, but looks bad at 180x360 and
360x360\n The printer can also emulate an IBM PS/2 according the the manuals, but I've never
got this to work, even under windows.\n Draft mode has to be set using the switches on the
front.\nFor TeX, use the nechi driver. Its the same as the LQ, but at 360x360.
Brother HL-1030 BW F Laser N/A Proprietary 600 600 N/A F
10 ppm. Excellent quality under Windows, but no Linux driver ye
t.\nUses GDI-driver under Windows. No PCL, no ASCII.\nSuccessor of the HL-820, but does not wor
k with "hl7x0" driver.
Brother HL-1040 BW B Laser ljet2p PCL 600 600 http://www.cs.wisc.edu/
~ghost/printer.html T Limited to 300dpi with Ghostscr
ipt.\nPrinting slower under GS than under Windows.\nToner good for 2400 pages @ 5%, Drum life @
\n20K pages. Only limitatons noted compared\nto Windows are resolution and speed.\nOtherwise, e
verything seems to work fine.\nDOS driver for emulated PCL-5, may work\nunder DOS-EMU.
Brother HL-1050 BW B Laser ljet4 PCL 1200 600 http://www.cs.wisc.edu/
~ghost/printer.html T Brother HL-1050 series PCL5,PJL,PCLXL 10 ppm. Excelle
nt quality printing at 600x600 DPI.\n1200x600dpi not available without proprietary driver.\nExc
ellent paper handling, fast printing from Linux/Ghostscript. \nUSB interface included. Expand
able to 36MB with conventional 72-pin DRAM.
Brother HL-1060 BW B Laser ljet4 PCL 1200 600 http://www.cs.wisc.edu/
~ghost/printer.html T Works perfectly at 600x600dpi.
1200x600 requires a special driver. With optional BR-Script2, Postscript2 emulation seems per
fect, but slow, at 600x600dpi.
Brother HL-1070 BW A Laser N/A PostScript 1200 600 N/A T
Brother HL-1070 series PCL5,POSTSCRIPT2,PJL,PCLXL This printer works flawlessly;
just plug it\nin and go.
Brother HL-10V BW A Laser ljet3 PCL 300 300 http://www.cs.wisc.edu/
~ghost/printer.html T HPII or HPIII drivers work. \nS
upports HP-GL/2, IBM Proprinter \nXL Mode, Epson FX-85 & Brother \nTwinriter DP modes, & Diablo
630 \nand Brother WP modes.
Brother HL-10h BW A Laser ljet4 PCL 600 600 http://www.cs.wisc.edu/
~ghost/printer.html T
Brother HL-1240 BW F Laser N/A Proprietary 600 600 N/A F
PCL support only under Windows.\n Appears to be a Winprinter
with Mac drivers, but no Linux drivers.
Brother HL-1250 BW B Laser ljet4 PCL 1200 600 http://www.cs.wisc.edu/
~ghost/printer.html T Brother HL-1250 series PCL5,PJL,PCLXL 12 ppm. Excelle
nt quality printing at 600x600 DPI. 1200x600dpi not available without proprietary driver. Excel
lent paper handling, fast printing from Linux/Ghostscript. USB interface included. Expandable t
o 36MB with conventional 72-pin DRAM.
Brother HL-1260 BW A Laser N/A PostScript 600 600 N/A T
Brother HL-1260 PCL5,POSTSCRIPT2,PJL Can also use HP LaserJet 4 driver. 2MB
standard, expandable to 26MB with standard 72 pin SIMMS.
Brother HL-2060 BW A Laser N/A PostScript 1200 1200 N/A T
8MB memory std; note that this isn't enough for 1200dpi.\n F
ujitsu SPARClite based.\n Network option available, USB, Parellel, Serial std.\n Also spe
aks PCL 6, HPGL, Epson.\n Duplex option available.
Brother HL-4Ve BW A Laser laserjet PCL 300 300 http://www.cs.w
isc.edu/~ghost/printer.html T
Brother HL-630 BW A Laser ljet2p PCL 300 300 http://www.cs.wisc.edu/
~ghost/printer.html T Reported as working perfectly b
y gjames.\n 0.5MB memory std; may need more to print beyond 150dpi.\n The model 631 appea
rs to be the same, but with 1.0M RAM.
Brother HL-660 BW A Laser ljet4 PCL 600 600 http://www.cs.wisc.edu/
~ghost/printer.html T Postscript option.
Brother HL-720 BW A Laser hl7x0 Proprietary 600 600 http://www.cs.w
isc.edu/~ghost/printer.html F Brother HL-720 series Driver
appears in gs distributions > 5.10.\n Gs will drive it at 6ppm.
Brother HL-730 BW A Laser hl7x0 PCL 600 600 http://www.cs.wisc.edu/
~ghost/printer.html T Listed as working in the Ghosts
cript sources.
Brother HL-760 BW A Laser ljet4 PCL 1200 600 http://www.cs.wisc.edu/
~ghost/printer.html T 1MB standard; may require more
for 600 and 300dpi.
Brother HL-8 BW A Laser ljetplus PCL 300 300 http://www.cs.w
isc.edu/~ghost/printer.html T Essentially a LaserJet
II with 512K RAM. I put in an extra\n2MB module so I could print full-page 300dpi, otherwise y
ou\ncan only do 150dpi.
Brother HL-820 BW B Laser hl7x0 Proprietary 600 600 http://www.cs.w
isc.edu/~ghost/printer.html F Documented by Brother a
s a Windows printer.\n 2 MB Memory not expandable\n works with Ghostscript hl7x0 driver a
t 600 DPI
Brother MC-3000 Color D Ink Jet epson ESC/P 720 720 http://www.cs.wisc.edu/
~ghost/printer.html T This is a GDI (winprinter) prin
ter/scanner/copier, with ESC/P support \nCould only get it working under Unix with esc/p (th
e Ghostscript epson driver),\n- output is in b/w 360x180dpi :( \nScanning won't work at all.
Brother MFC 6550MC BW B Laser ljet2p PCL 600 600 http://www.cs.w
isc.edu/~ghost/printer.html T Prints Perfectly, just
no scanning support.\n Use GS 5.50. Slow under StarOffice 5.1. Works fine under WordPerfect
8 for Linux.
Brother MFC 7150C Color D Ink Jet epsonc Proprietary 1440 720 http://
www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/printer.html T Prints in black
and white at \nI don't know what resolution.\n \nScanning presumed unsupported?
CalComp Artisan 1023 penplotter Color F Impact N/A PCL N/A
F
Canon BJ-10e BW A Ink Jet bj10e Proprietary http://www.cs.w
isc.edu/~ghost/printer.html T Note that some report i
t working properly in epson mode only.
Canon BJ-20 BW A Ink Jet bj10e Proprietary http://www.cs.w
isc.edu/~ghost/printer.html T works with ghostscript
as of v 5.10.
Canon BJ-200 BW A Ink Jet bj200 Proprietary 360 360 http://www.cs.w
isc.edu/~ghost/printer.html T
Canon BJ-300 BW B Ink Jet lq850 ESC/P http://www.cs.wisc.edu/
~ghost/printer.html T Drives Canon at 360dpi in Epson
emulation mode.
Canon BJ-330 BW A Ink Jet bj200 ESC/P 360 360 http://www.cs.wisc.edu/
~ghost/printer.html T Drives Canon at 360dpi in Epson
emulation mode.
Canon BJ-5 BW A Ink Jet bj10e Proprietary 360 360 http://www.cs.w
isc.edu/~ghost/printer.html T Used APSfilter to gener
ate printcap
Canon BJC-1000 Color B Ink Jet bjc600 Proprietary 360 720 http://
www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/printer.html F Canon BJC-1000 BJL,BJRaster,BSCC,TXT01
Canon BJC-1000 This printer works fine with the Ghostscript driver for the BJC-600/BJC-4000. H
owever, it will not do plain ASCII text.
Canon BJC-2000 Color B Ink Jet bjc600 Proprietary 720 360 http://
www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/printer.html F Canon BJC-2000 BJL,BJRaster,BSCC,TXT01
Canon BJC-2000 Won't do 720x360 mode, AFAIK; You only get 1/2 of a stretched image.\n\nThis pr
inter claims to use a PPA interface, but it must (also?) work with the bjc600 protocol.
Canon BJC-210 Color A Ink Jet bjc600 ESC/P 720 360 http://www.cs.wisc.edu/
~ghost/printer.html T Canon BJC-210 BJ,LQ,BJL,BJRaster Canon BJC-210 Use bj2
00 gs driver for bw. \n Colour printing is only at 360x360.\n For TeX, it may be\nnecess
ary to set a 360x360 or 720x720 metafont mode for some fonts which don't transform correctly at
\n720x360.
Canon BJC-240 Color B Ink Jet bjc600 ESC/P 360 360 http://www.cs.wisc.edu/
~ghost/printer.html T use bj200 gs driver for bw.
Canon BJC-250 Color B Ink Jet bj200 ASCII 360 360 http://www.cs.wisc.edu/
~ghost/printer.html T Use bj200 driver for bw.\n U
se uniprint parameter files bjc610*.upp for color.
Canon BJC-4000 Color A Ink Jet bjc600 ESC/P 360 360 http://www.cs.w
isc.edu/~ghost/printer.html T Use gs option -sProcess
ColorModel=DeviceGray for bw.\n May need proprietary software to load, but there seems to be
a funky button combination that works, too.
Canon BJC-4100 Color A Ink Jet bjc600 ESC/P 720 360 http://www.cs.w
isc.edu/~ghost/printer.html T Use gs option -sProcess
ColorModel=DeviceGray for bw.
Canon BJC-4200 Color A Ink Jet bjc600 ESC/P 720 360 http://www.cs.w
isc.edu/~ghost/printer.html T Direct ASCII print to t
he parallel\nport don't work (CR are not taken\ninto acount by the printer, so that\nlines are
not wrapped)
Canon BJC-4300 Color A Ink Jet bjc600 ESC/P 720 360 http://www.cs.w
isc.edu/~ghost/printer.html T Canon BJC-4300 BJ,LQ,BJL,BJRaster,BSCC Canon B
JC-4300 Cartridge loading and alignment can be done from front panel; consult your manual.\n May require a recent (5+) of ghostscript.
Canon BJC-4310SP Color B Ink Jet bjc600 ESC/P 360 360 http://www.cs.w
isc.edu/~ghost/printer.html T Colour doesn't work for
less than 24 bits/pixel.
Canon BJC-4400 Color A Ink Jet bjc600 ESC/P 720 360 http://www.cs.w
isc.edu/~ghost/printer.html T
Canon BJC-4550 Color D Ink Jet bjc600 Proprietary http://
www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/printer.html T In gs 5.03, col
our only works for 24 and 32\nbit/pixel. \n Monochrome reported not working, but try bj200 d
river or -dBitsPerPixel=1. \n Maximum width is limited to 8.5 inches.
Canon BJC-5000 Color F Ink Jet N/A Proprietary 1440 720 N/A
T Dan Herrglock (?) reports on Usenet that this printer w
orks "fine" with the bjc600 driver.\n All other reports say that it's a paperweight.
Canon BJC-5100 Color F Ink Jet N/A PPA 1440 720 N/A T
If someone believes this printer works -clearly document how to
get it to work HERE. It simply does not work since the protocol is proprietary and undisclose
d.
Canon BJC-600 Color A Ink Jet bjc600 Proprietary 360 360 http://www.cs.w
isc.edu/~ghost/printer.html T Specific GS driver writ
ten for this printer.
Canon BJC-6000 Color A Ink Jet bjc600 PPA 1440 720 http://www.cs.w
isc.edu/~ghost/printer.html T Reported to work on Use
net by Jan Harmsen; may well be "perfect" - if so please fix!\n May only run at 720x720?
Canon BJC-610 Color A Ink Jet uniprint Proprietary 720 720 http://
www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/aladdin/doc/Devices.htm#Uniprint T
Uses bjc610*.upp files; see uniprint driver link.\n Different uniprint drivers for 360/720dp
i printing and different paper types.
Canon BJC-620 Color A Ink Jet bjc600 Proprietary 720 720 http://www.cs.w
isc.edu/~ghost/printer.html T Uses alternately bjc610
*.upp files; see uniprint driver link.\nDifferent uniprint drivers for 360/720dpi printing and
different paper types.
Canon BJC-70 Color A Ink Jet bjc600 Proprietary http://www.cs.w
isc.edu/~ghost/printer.html T use bj20 gs driver for
bw.
Canon BJC-7000 Color D Ink Jet bjc800 ESC/P 1200 600 http://www.cs.w
isc.edu/~ghost/printer.html T works in color. bw?
Canon BJC-7004 Color B Ink Jet bjc800 Proprietary 1200 600 http://
www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/printer.html T Works at 600x60
0.
Canon BJC-7100 Color D Ink Jet bjc800 Proprietary 1200 600 http://
www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/printer.html F very slow\n 
CMYKcmy 7-color printer; current drivers are CMYK/4-color only.
Canon BJC-80 Color B Ink Jet bjc600 Proprietary 720 360 http://www.cs.w
isc.edu/~ghost/printer.html T Portable printer.\n 
Serial(IrDA) or parallel interfaces; both work.\n Scanner functionality is not supported.\n See the more info URL for information on configuring lpd to use a serial port properly for t
his printer.
Canon BJC-800 Color A Ink Jet bjc800 Proprietary 720 720 http://www.cs.w
isc.edu/~ghost/printer.html T
Canon LBP-1260 BW A Laser ljet4 PCL 600 600 http://www.cs.w
isc.edu/~ghost/printer.html T Works fine with 7 MB in
stalled
Canon LBP-1760 BW A Laser ljet4 PCL 1200 1200 http://www.cs.w
isc.edu/~ghost/printer.html T Works fine, although I
have only tried it up to 600x600 on A4
Canon LBP-4+ BW A Laser lbp8 Proprietary http://www.cs.w
isc.edu/~ghost/printer.html T Reported on Usenet by M
ark Bennett-Leaver to work fine with the lbp8 driver.\n Note that pages with lots of graphic
s will require additional printer memory.
Canon LBP-430 BW F Laser N/A PPA 300 300 N/A F

Canon LBP-460 BW F Laser N/A Proprietary 300 300 N/A F
PCL4/LJIIp emulation via Windows driver.
Canon LBP-4U BW A Laser lbp8 Proprietary 300 300 http://www.cs.w
isc.edu/~ghost/printer.html T Text and graphics work
well with Ghostscript's lbp8 driver (but the page is shifted). It is more convenient to use the
ljetIII driver then convert the PCL output to CaPSL with cjet 0.89.
Canon LBP-4sx BW B Laser ljet3 PCL 300 300 http://www.cs.wisc.edu/
~ghost/printer.html T Reported to work fine as a PCL
laser by Alan Dickie.
Canon LBP-660 BW F Laser N/A Proprietary 600 600 N/A F
Offers PCL emulation, but this appears to be in software.\n 
Even if PCL is in firmware, it is limited to 300dpi.
Canon LBP-8A1 BW A Laser N/A PPA N/A F

Canon LBP-8II BW A Laser lbp8 Proprietary http://www.cs.w
isc.edu/~ghost/printer.html T
Canon LIPS III BW A Laser lips3 Proprietary 300 300 http://
www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/printer.html T
Canon LIPS-III BW A Laser lips3 Proprietary http://
www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/printer.html T Gs driver works
in English mode (?).
Canon MultiPASS C2500 Color D Ink Jet bjc600 Proprietary http://
www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/printer.html T printer/fax/cop
ier\n works in 360x360\n You have to push the Printer button.
Canon MultiPASS C3500 Color D Ink Jet bjc600 Proprietary 720 360 http://
www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/printer.html T Using GhostScri
pt 5.1, can get\nreasonable 360x360 output using the\n'bjc600' driver. Doesn't support\nthe fa
xing/scanning though (although\nI haven't tried SANE yet). Note\nthat you do have to configure
the\nprinter to run in 'DOS emulation'\nmode in order to get it to print\nproperly when using
this driver.
Canon MultiPASS C5000 Color D Ink Jet bjc600 Proprietary 720 360 http://
www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/printer.html T Can be set to D
OS emulation: information is not in the manual but is available from the CCSI web site. Still c
an't do much more than print ASCII, however.
Canon Multipass C3000 Color D Ink Jet bjc600 Proprietary http://
www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/printer.html F Actually, I use
d the bjc610 uniprint driver\nsetting from RedHat's printtool.\nThis multifunction machine igno
red me until\nI gave it this magic invocation from \nthe front panel:\n"Function" "0" five-grea
ter-than-signs "Start" "Start"\n(Which corresponds to DOS Printing ON)
Canon Multipass C5500 Color D Ink Jet bjc600 Proprietary 720 360 http://
www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/printer.html T This is a multi
function printer that differs from the C3500 only in the fact that the scanner is a color one (
in the C3500 it is B&W).\n\nThe documentation that comes with the printer claims that this will
not run with NT or Win 3.1. However, the canon site has links to drivers for NT.\nPrinting und
er non-Win9X systems is accomplished by setting the printer to DOS emulation mode. Under this m
ode, the printer is driver compatible (according\nto Canon) with several printers including the
Epson LQ2550 and LQ2500 and the Canon BJC 4300 and 4400. The resolution in this case is claime
d to be the \nmaximum supported by the driver.\n\nI tried it out with the bj600 and it works. R
esolution at which it prints is not known. I have not tried the scanner.
Canon Multipass L6000 BW F Laser N/A Proprietary 600 600 N/A
F Multifunction device (fax/copier/etc).\n Vendor FAQ
says no support for DOS apps at all.\n Matt Berger tried various drivers with no luck.
Citizen ProJet II BW A Ink Jet laserjet PCL 300 300 http://
www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/printer.html T Clone of Olivet
ti JP350, hence similarly functional.
Citizen ProJet IIc Color A Ink Jet djet500 PCL 300 300 http://www.cs.w
isc.edu/~ghost/printer.html T Clone of Olivetti JP450