Driver that works on allmost ALL printers on Linux

After several months of using Linux we found several ways to print on Linux including Windows Printer server...and REVOLUTION... now we found a ultimate driver :D We found that every PPD driver which have sufix "ljet4" will work on Linux. We usually use Samsung QL-5100A ljet4 driver which works on our KONICA MINOLTA printers. Before this our KONICA MINOLTA printers like 15490, 240f, bizhub c10, c352... worked only with Windows Print Server. Now Linux computers can send data directly to printer and it works perfectlly.
You have those drivers installed by default in Ubuntu. Just go to CUPS or Printers , choose your printer and then choose Samsung QL-5100 ljet4 driver and it should work :D Every printer we tried works perfectly. Also if you want to test other printer drivers,or you have specific needs like several trays, grayscale or color display, best way is to try Generic printer drivers first, just keep in mind that those with "lj" in their names are working very well. If you want to printer recognize your paper as monochrome/grayscale you should use ljet5gray or pxlmono drivers. We tried them and they works very well.

What is ljet4?

It is Ghostscript's HP LaserJet 4 (PCL 5e) driver.
"ljet4" is the classical Ghostscript driver for PCL 5e printers. It is probably widely used, as it is part of Ghostscript and does not require any extra software, but before Ghostscript 8.x its output quality was lousy and one has searched for alternative drivers. From Ghostscript 8.x the well-tempered screening was introduced which gives much better quality for half-tone images. You can make use of it by downloading the PPD file for your printer here and using the "HalftoningAlgorithm" option.
Read moreabout ljet4 here: https://www.openprinting.org/driver/ljet4/

Now every printer works on Linux. If driver which aou chosen based on ljet4 doesn't support color printing you should find some model of priner which support color and ljet4 and it should work.
Also you can generate ljet4-like PPD driver on the upper link.
ENJOY :D I will jump over and over... :D

If you still have problems try our solutions before we found this driver:
http://linuxibos.blogspot.com/2012/05/how-to-print-from-linux-without-needing.html
http://linuxibos.blogspot.com/2012/05/seprinters-linux.html

I am sure that this driver works on almost all printers but on apper link are tested those printers:

KONICA MINOLTA bizhub 240f, KONICA MINOLTA c353, Xerox 3220,
    Brother DCP-7010    Brother DCP-7020    Brother DCP-8045D     HL-1050     HL-1060     HL-1070     HL-10h     HL-1250     HL-1260     HL-1270N     HL-1430     HL-1440     HL-1450     HL-1470N     HL-2070N     HL-2140     HL-2170W     HL-5030     HL-5040     HL-5050     HL-5070N     HL-5140     HL-5150D     HL-5170DN     HL-660     HL-760     HL-960    Canon GP 335    Canon imageRunner 2200    Canon imageRunner 2800     3300     330s     3570     4570     5000     5570     6570     8500     C5870U     C6870U    Canon LBP-1000     LBP-1260     LBP-1760     LBP-3360     LBP-430    DEC LN17    Epson AL-C1900     AL-C1900 PS3     AL-C2000     AL-C2000 PS3     AL-C4000     AL-C4000 PS3     AL-C4100     AL-C8500     AL-C8500PS     AL-C8600     EPL-5900 PS3     EPL-6100     EPL-6100 PS3     EPL-N1600     EPL-N1600PS     EPL-N2050     EPL-N2050+     EPL-N2050PS     EPL-N2050PS+     EPL-N2120     EPL-N2500     EPL-N2500 PS3     EPL-N2750    Epson EPL-N2750PS    Fujitsu PrintPartner 10V    Fujitsu PrintPartner 16DV    Fujitsu PrintPartner 20W    Generic PCL 5c Printer    Generic PCL 5e Printer    Generic PCL 6/PCL XL Printer    HP Color LaserJet 4550    HP Color LaserJet 4600    HP Color LaserJet 5000    HP LaserJet 1015     1100     1100A     1150     1200     1220     1300     2100     2100M     2200     2300     3392     3P w/ PCL5     4     4050     4100     4L     4M     4ML     4P     4Si     4V     4 Plus     5     5L     5P     5Si     6     6L     6P     8150     9000    IBM Infoprint 12    IBM Page Printer 3112    Infotec 4651 MF    Kyocera CS-1815    Kyocera FS-1000    Kyocera FS-1000+     FS-1010     FS-1018MFP     FS-1020D     FS-1030D     FS-1050     FS-1118MFP     FS-1714M     FS-1750     FS-1800     FS-1800+     FS-1900     FS-1920     FS-2000D     FS-3600     FS-3600+     FS-3700     FS-3700+     FS-3718M     FS-3750     FS-3800     FS-3820N     FS-3830N     FS-3900DN     FS-6300     FS-6500     FS-6500+     FS-6700     FS-6750     FS-680     FS-6900     FS-6950DN     FS-7000     FS-7000+     FS-7028M     FS-4000DN     FS-5800C     FS-5900C     FS-600     FS-600 (KPDL-2)     FS-6020     FS-6026     FS-800     FS-8000C     FS-9000     FS-9100DN     FS-9130DN     FS-920     FS-9500DN     FS-9530DN     KM-1510     KM-1530     KM-1810     KM-1815     KM-1820     KM-2030     KM-2530     KM-3050     KM-3530     KM-4050     KM-4230     KM-4230/5230     KM-4530     KM-5050     KM-5230     KM-5530     KM-6030     KM-6230     KM-8030    Lexmark E120    Lexmark E120n     E230     E320     Optra E     Optra E321     Optra E+    Minolta PagePro 1100    Minolta PagePro 6     6e     6ex     8    NEC SuperScript 1400    NEC SuperScript 1800    NEC SuperScript 660i    Oki B410    Oki B4350    Oki Okipage 10e     10ex     14ex     6e     6ex     8p    Oki OL410e    Oki OL810ex    Oki Super 6e    Ricoh Aficio 220    Ricoh Aficio 401    Ricoh Aficio 700    Samsung ML-1250    -1450    -1450PS    -1650    -1651N    -1750    -2150    -2150PS    -2151N    -2151NPS    -2152W    -2152WPS    -2250    -2550    -2551N    -2552W    -2570    -4600    -5000a    -6000    -6100    -7000    -7000N    -7000P    -7050    -7300    Samsung ML-7300N    Samsung ML-85    Samsung QL-5100A    Samsung QL-6050    Sharp AR-161    Sharp AR-168D     AR-168S     AR-5220     AR-BC260     AR-BC320     AR-C170M     AR-C172M     AR-C260     AR-C260F     AR-C260M     AR-C260P     AR-C260S     AR-C261F     AR-C261M     AR-C261S     AR-C262M     AR-C262S     AR-M351N     AR-M351U     AR-M355N     AR-M355U     AR-M451N     AR-M451U     AR-M455N     AR-M455U     AR-M550N     AR-M550U     AR-M620N    Sharp AR-M620U    Sharp AR-M700N    Sharp AR-M700U    Sharp ARP350    Sharp ARP450    Tektronix Phaser 750DP    Tektronix Phaser 750DX    Tektronix Phaser 750N    Tektronix Phaser 750P    Xerox Able 1406    Xerox Document Centre 400    int 4508    int N4512    int N4512PS    int P1202    int P8e     2135     4400B     4400DT     4400DX     4400N     4500B     4500DT     4500DX     4500N     4510B     4510DT     4510DX     4510N     5500B     5500DN     5500DT     5500DX     5500N     6130N     6180DN     6180MFP-D     6200B     6200DP     6200DX     6200N     6250B     6250DP     6250DT     6250DX     6250N     6300DN     6300N     6350DP     6350DT     6350DX     6360DN     6360DX     7300B     7300DN     7300DT     7300DX     7300N     7400DN     7400DT     7400DX     7400DXF     7400N     7700DN     7700DX     7700GX     7750B     7750DN     7750DXF     7750GX     7760DN     7760DX     7760GX     8400B     8400BD     8400DP     8400DX     8400N     8500DN     8500N     8550DP    Xerox Phaser 8550DT    Xerox Phaser 8550DX    Xerox Phaser 8560DN    Xerox 

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