Dell 2135cn Printer

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Dell 2135cn Printer

New to forum. I have a Dell 2135cn printer that I bought one month ago. My brother just purchased a Mac Pro. I would love to get a Mac also, however how do I get my printer to work with my printer?

Posted on Mar 13, 2010 3:08 PM

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Answer 1

Mar 13, 2010 5:04 PM in response to djmahon

Dell does not provide drivers for their all-in-one printers and Macs. Sometimes Lexmark drivers will work but not always.

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Mar 13, 2010 5:18 PM in response to djmahon

The specifications provided by Dell at http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/print/2135cn_en.pdf indicate that this printer can use a PCL 6 driver. I would suggest using the Mac OS X packages for the pxlmono drivers from OpenPrinting.org http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/macosx/pxlmon o. When you set up the printer use the "Generic PCL 6/PCL XL Printer Foomatic/pxlcolor" driver.

I have no information on the how to use the scanner in Mac OS X.

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Mar 13, 2010 6:23 PM in response to Matt Broughton

Thanks. Thinking about running Parallels Desktop with windows. I have a unopened copy of XP. I believe I can drag my documents from iwork and drop into windows where my printer is based to print What do you think?

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Mar 13, 2010 6:28 PM in response to djmahon

I don't have any experience running Windows under Parallels. Why would you want to drag your documents into Windows for printing if you can print directly from OS X using the pxlmono driver? You may get more printing options using Windows, but for basic printing what you propose seems like a waste of resources.

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Mar 13, 2010 6:38 PM in response to Matt Broughton

I am based out of a home office, so I use my dell to scan, fax, and print in color with duplexing with documents from excel and word.

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