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I'm thinking about getting a new colour laser printer. I've always bought HP in the past, as their support has been so good, but after my experience with iffy hardware on my 476dn and the high cost of running HP printers, a supplier has suggested I look at Xerox's C8000DT. Although the Xerox website does specifically say they support Linux and there an X86 RPM package, I Was wondering whether anyone had experience with Xerox and especially that model to be able to comment on how well it plays with Mageia please? I can't see its drivers in our repositories.

You can see how i did with my Xerox 7750cdn
viewtopic.php?f=24&t=4203#p76700

That seems to be a Cannon printer

Doh, yes. Hah. My previous one was Xerox.

How well did it play with Mageia?

I also used to use HP, but moved away from them for a variety of reasons. I currently have a Brother color laser that cost me about $200.

I had no difficulty at all installing and configuring it using Linux. It resides on my LAN and is accessed by all my systems and VMs, with no issues.

I can't comment about Xerox printers, but I will stick with Brother for the indefinite future. Given my current (and projected) very low volume of paper generation, this particular printer might last me forever.

and I have a Kyocera Laser Printer ( ECOsys P5021cdn) on my lan.

not identified as the correct brand / model but the defaults work - ok

IF I set it up via USB, correctly identified.

DiBosco wrote::D How well did it play with Mageia?

Model: Phaser 8550, melt wax jet printer.
No problem with Mageia but with the real world:
Marketing say environmentally friendly because less material in ink container.
Real world:
1) consumed 70 watt average for continuous heating by brainless design of blowing hot air "through" the printer! As extra points that behaviour accumulates dust and heat up room for more AC in summer...
2) an hour heat up if left standby (it had timer to start before office hours IIRC)
3) expensive wax ink and silicone oil drum
4) display after a couple years some days work, some days not.

So dumb design, bad marketing, partly low quality. My first and probably last Xerox.

Why I bought it: the wax printing works on cheap transparent film, so i could easy make prototype cirquit boards. Also the picture photo quality was rather good compared to other methods calulated per sheet.

I still have it on a shelf so if anyone need spare parts or wax...