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HP LaserJet 3
 
Black & White laser printer, max. 300x300 dpi, works Perfectly
Recommended Driver: ljet3 (Home page, View PPD, directly download PPD)
Generic Instructions: CUPS, no spooler
 

Miscellaneous

Printer supports direct text printing with the 'us-ascii' charset.

Comments

For basic printing functionality use the HPIJS driver . For advanced functionality such as printer status and maintenance features, use the HPLIP driver (which includes HPIJS).

Make sure you have at least 2MB RAM, otherwise it won't be able to print complex pages.

Widely available this workhorse just keeps going and going. It also uses about the cheapest toner available. Remanufactured toner is about $25, and Xerox sells new units for about $50. Cheaper to run than ANY inkjet. Keep your eyes open for used HP LJIII or IIID's they are a good buy.

Warning !!!

If you have only 1MB of printer RAM: This printer supports 300dpi only under text mode. If you try to print graphic pages with this resolution, only 3/4 of the page will get printed and you'll get MEM OVERFLOW. For a full page in graphics mode, you have to set the resolution to 150x150dpi...

Consumables/Refills: Toner, ~$50

Drivers

The following driver(s) are known to drive this printer:

Recommended driver:

 
ljet3  (driver home page)
 
This driver is free software.
Type: Ghostscript built-in
Download:PPD file: View PPD, directly download PPD
 

Other drivers:

 
gimp-print  (driver home page)
 
This driver is obsolete. Recommended replacement driver: gutenprint
This driver is free software.
Type: CUPS Raster
 

 
gutenprint  (driver home page)
 
Top Quality Printer Drivers for inkjets, dye sublimation printers, and PCL lasers
Supplier: Gutenprint project
License: GPL (free software)
User support:Gutenprint mailing list at SourceForge (voluntary)
Color output   Type: CUPS Raster
Text:||||||||||  90Graphics:||||||||||  100System Load:Unknown
Line Art:||||||||||  90Photo:||||||||||  100Speed:||||||||||  60
Download:Driver packages: x86 32 bit: 5.2.7 (RPM for LSB 3.2) (Signed), 5.2.7 (DEB for LSB 3.2) (Signed), 5.0.1 (RPM for LSB 3.1) (Signed), 5.0.1 (DEB for LSB 3.1) (Signed), x86 64 bit: 5.2.7 (RPM for LSB 3.2) (Signed), 5.2.7 (DEB for LSB 3.2) (Signed), 5.0.1 (RPM for LSB 3.1) (Signed), 5.0.1 (DEB for LSB 3.1) (Signed) (How to install)
 

 
omni  (driver home page)
 
This driver is free software.
Type: Ghostscript built-in