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I just got our HP5L working with Linux, no problem.
You will need a current version of Ghostscript (i.e. 3.3.3)
which comes with recent distributions such as RedHat 4.0.
Just tell ghostscript you have a ljet4 with 600x600 resolution.

Actually there was a small printing configuration problem with 
RedHat 4.0.  This is not related to the HP5L.  The filter used
by /etc/printcap in RedHat 4.0 (/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter)
uses nenscript which can't detect postscript documents starting
with ^D and is setup for US paper sizes instead of A4.

Don't let this put you off though, just modify the script, or
make your own based on the ghostscript command in the script.
It's just a RedHat problem - not Linux.  It is probably fixed in 4.1.

Rachel Polanskis wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> we are 1/2 way towards saving for our laser printer...
> 
> What do you linux fiends recommend?
> I was thinking of a HP5L, if it will work with linux.
> 
> Any gotchas with this one?
> 
> Does anyone have a better idea, in the same price bracket ($600 - 800)?
> Or, even does anyone have a good condition printer they would like to
> sell that will function in a UNIX environment?
> We intend to serve printing to a Windoze 3.11 box via samba as well...
> 
> rachel
> 
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