HOWTO: Dell 3000cn with Ubuntu

[kevin niebuhr]

Your post fixed my printing problems with my Epson R220, could not get it to work until I read you post.
Thanks,
Kevin

[neonigma]

Well, sorry for my English (I'm spanish), and forgive the delay in replying.

I'm using Kubuntu and we have in our job a DELL 3000cn. I was fighting with Kubuntu about way for printing my notes in color.

I follow your first post, but I hadn't anything such as Color LaserJet Series PCL 6 CUPS in the KDE -> System Preferences -> Printers menu.

Nevertheless, this special printer APPEARED when I connected to CUPS via Web => http://localhost:631

Simply add a new printer and specify a name for it, select AppSocket/HPJetDirect like Connection, give the URI: socket://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:9100 in example (changing the "x" by printer IP) and select HP as manufacturer in the next stage. Click next and HP Color Laserjet Series PCL 6 CUPS appears. In my example is the last printer from the HP Color Laserjet models.

I don't know why this model appears in CUPS web mode but it can't finding in the KDE printer menu.

Greetings.

[jhaitas]

are you saying you got this piece of **** printer to successfully print color documents that are correctly aligned???

i am skeptical... Dell has been tremendously unhelpful... the employees seem to have nothing but contempt for Linux...

i am thoroughly disappointed in Dell and will not purchase from them unless there is a truly compelling reason to do so...

Dell follows Microsoft's ****** business practices it seems – they care more about money than satisfied customers

[neonigma]

I agree with you: Dell seems a typical "only works in Microsoft Windows" bla bla bla.

It's very strange. I was printed only a color document (with ONLY one page) and works fine. You have to configure it for printing in 600 dpi, in another way doesn't work for me.

But when I try to printing a medium-size doc (about 20 pages), printer doesn't work. I was trying this about jan 3, so when my boss going to have breakfast (I'm a work-study in an University), I'll try again.

Greetings!

[kewldude606]

Hi all,

I just wanted to update this thread with information for Gutsy. The steps are all pretty much the same, just the dialog boxes are a little bit different.

To get it working in Gutsy, once you have finished following the steps above, go to Control Center-->Printing (its in the Hardware category)-->Select the printer under the Local Printers menu-->Go to the printer options tab-->Change the output resolution to 600DPI.

Now, I have trouble printing large documents even from Windows to this printer (it runs out of RAM occasionally), so I would send things a few pages at a time. Besides that, the printer works a lot better under Gutsy than it did in Feisty for me at least.

Also, this is from a clean install of Gutsy.

Enjoy!

[StevenBirnam]

Don't know why you are complaining about Dell - the key piece in the puzzle when configuring the 30000cn is to make sure you have - and it was mentioned several times before - configured the printer for 600dpi (300dpi, which seems to be the default, produces a small test page, with the printed area restricted to the upper lefthand corner of the page - while setting it to 600dpi gives the perfect result for printing the test page.

The HP driver works fine, but it would be nice if someone, preferably Dell, posted a driver for the printer.

StevenB

[StevenBirnam]

BTW: If you complain about Dell's allegiance to MS, then what about their supplying Google with the Google GSA (Google Search Appliance)?
Dell isn't all that bad - it's just that they are new to the Linux market, and started off on the wrong foot with Redhat. Hopefully, demand from the Ubuntu community will change that.

StevenB

[neonigma]

You have reason, maybe Dell it's a newbie in this world of free software.

I hope Dell compile its drivers for a better Ubuntu compliance in the future.

Greetings!

[rhdinah]

Yeah, don't be too hard on Dell as they've announced their support in the future for Linux. To expect a lot of support on older drivers might be a bit much, but to put an older driver in the public domain is not. Honestly, the people at Ubuntu or Debian should get in bed with Dell a bit to convince them that in no way does porting drivers with open source have a impact on their business other than possibly increasing it.

I have this printer too ... and under Linux ... unacceptable performance ... so a tiny Windows partition somewhere with the supported driver there ... when I need total compliance ... is not too much to expect ... I guess ... sigh ...

[melanarchy]

If the printer is printing just into the left corner, just change the res to 600dpi.