Help needed with Panasonic DP-1810F multifunction printer/copier/fax

[James Richard Tyrer]

Joe Fitzmyer wrote:
> Our office has the above machine with the optional PCL card and the
> optional network card. I can ping the machine so I know the network card
> is working. I can print to the machine from Windows.
> 
> I need to use this machine as a printer from the KDE desktop using
> Mandrake 9.0 & 9.1 machines as well as from an AIX 4.3.3 machine.
> 
> The vendor knows only Windows and has been of no help. Has anyone gotten
> this machine to work in a Unix or Linux environment? Has anyone seen
> print drivers for Panasonic multifunction machines anywhere?
> 
> Thanks in advance!

This is a hardware issue.  Look for help at:

	http://linuxprinting.org/

and their mailing lists.

If you can get a GhostScript device and a SANE backend for the machine, 
then it will work with KDE.

Unfortunately, it isn't listed.

There *is* a project for HP combination devices:

	http://hpoj.sourceforge.net/

But I am afraid that unless you combination device is HP compatible that it 
is currently in the doorstop category as far as Linux is concerned.

You might ask on the: linuxprinting.general news group.

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JRT