Comments on: Brother MFC-9120CN Color LASER Printer

By: luli

luli — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 20:01:32 +0000

What about fax in linux? is it supported? can you send and recieve faxes?

By: etbe

etbe — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:01:17 +0000

Sam: When I was investigating this matter I seriously considered a Samsung printer – which was probably the same model as the one you bought. I got the impression that it would have less driver support and that it had less features – although the poor quality of the technical information on the web sites made this difficult to determine.

I’m glad it worked out for you!

By: Sam Varghese

Sam Varghese — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 06:41:16 +0000

Samsung has a new colour multifunction laser out which I bought for
a friend for $445 last month. It comes with drivers for Linux, Mac
and Windows! The set of cartridges that comes with the printer will
give about 1500 pages, calculating at 5% colour coverage. It has
a scanner, copier. It is network-ready, small in size and the printing
is excellent.

By: etbe

etbe — Sat, 29 May 2010 12:21:14 +0000

Sebastian: OK, so if it takes 4*4 arrays to make the colors then we only need a 1.75MP camera to drive a 600DPI printer at full capacity. The Wikipedia page about LED Printers describes how they fail to give the expected benefit from the asymmetrical DPI for black and white, but if dithering is necessary for color reproduction then the asymmetrical DPI should really do some good. So if 16 dots are needed for one pixel then a 7MP camera can probably drive the printer to it’s maximum capacity.

As 10MP cameras are reasonably affordable nowadays and 15MP cameras are dropping in price this seems like a real problem.

Of course if you crop your pictures before printing them then you will probably end up with few pictures being more than about 80% of the original size when you print them. In which case a 10MP camera would be about as good as you could get without the printer being a bottleneck on reproduction quality.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Sat, 29 May 2010 09:48:32 +0000

Hmm, your calculation is most probably not correct as a pixel on screen doesn’t map 1:1 to a dot on paper (compare e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dots_per_inch ).

By: Paul Dwerryhouse

Paul Dwerryhouse — Sat, 29 May 2010 08:18:46 +0000

The Oxford dictionary has accepted laser as a word now (noting that it was originally an acronym), you don’t need to capitalise it anymore…