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#1 2007-03-02 4:24 pm
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Anyway of making Dell or Konica Minolta Laser Printers work in Mac?
A friend of mine is offering me one of these two Laser Printers for Free but i've been doing research on them and it seems that none of them seem to be compatible with the Mac OS system. Is this true? Is there anyway of making them compatible if they are not?
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#2 2007-03-02 4:50 pm
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Re: Anyway of making Dell or Konica Minolta Laser Printers work in Mac?
What Mac and which OS?
Also which printers? I believe some Minoltas work with Mac.
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#3 2007-03-02 4:53 pm
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Re: Anyway of making Dell or Konica Minolta Laser Printers work in Mac?
If i am correct, Dell gets thier printers from Lexmark. If the printer is not fairly new, it should work, but you will need to get a driver (which take a while to port over). not sure if this helps.
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#4 2007-03-03 7:05 pm
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Re: Anyway of making Dell or Konica Minolta Laser Printers work in Mac?
Maybe try this: http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/MacOSX.php3
Gutenprint is a collection of open-source drivers for Unix and Linux distros, including Mac OS X. They have a link to the supported printers list, I saw some Minolta printers listed there, see if that helps.
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#5 2007-03-03 9:16 pm
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Re: Anyway of making Dell or Konica Minolta Laser Printers work in Mac?
I plugged a Dell laser into my Mac once and it worked via generic driver.
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#6 2007-03-03 9:18 pm
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Re: Anyway of making Dell or Konica Minolta Laser Printers work in Mac?
OS X includes Gimp-Print so you may have it already. Of course finding the right driver to work with your printer may take a bit of trial and error.
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#7 2007-03-04 8:24 am
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Re: Anyway of making Dell or Konica Minolta Laser Printers work in Mac?
Dell printers are indeed rebranded Lexmarks. The only trick is figuring out which Dell model equates to which Lexmark model. A bit of Google research can probably help you out there.
As far as Konica Minolta, I'm not sure how to advise you, but I'm sure if you play around with some of the GIMP-print drivers, you'll get some results.
Good luck!
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#8 2007-03-04 1:03 pm
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Re: Anyway of making Dell or Konica Minolta Laser Printers work in Mac?
We have a Dell printer at work and I am able to use it just fine with Linux/CUPS using the Generic PostScript Printer PPD. Even recognizes that the printer has a duplexer.
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