[Discuss] Is Sharp AL-1540CS a paperweight on Linux

Dan Ritter dsr at randomstring.org
Mon May 5 14:34:14 EDT 2014


On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 02:26:05PM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> A friend of mine has a Sharp AL-1540CS and is unable to find a Linux
> printer driver for it. This is a color USB laser printer.
> 

It's a GDI printer: it relies on Windows to produce a rasterized
image for it to print. It won't work.

(Might manage to get the scanner function to work, since that
claims to be TWAIN compliant. Maybe.)


-dsr-



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