What printers work with the BeOS?

The BeOS has undergone a printing architecture rewrite. It has opened up more flexibility to printing from the BeOS. We now support three kinds of printers:

1. Apple Laserwriter compatible printers. The printer must be in the same AppleTalk zone if connected via ethernet and compatible with the "generic" Apple Laserwriter 8 driver in the MacOS. We do support printer bridges like hardware Localtalk bridges or Apple's LocalTalk/LaserWriter Bridge software bridge. There are countless printers that fit this category, so we honestly don't track which ones specifically are known to work.
2. HP LaserJet (PCL-3)-compatible printers. If your printer is not PCL 3 compliant, it will not work until your printer manufacturer writes a driver.
3. There is also support for some Epson Stylus 6-color printers. The driver works with the ones with 6 ink colors, including black. Some examples: Epson Stylus...
   Color (no number)
   Color II
   Photo EX
   Pro
   Pro XL
   
   What no 600s, 700s, or 800s? Be nice, the engineer developing the driver isn't even a Be employee (yet), he's just really nice. He had to remove support for the few of these printers that were supported previously because of technical limitations. Expanded support for any device really needs to come from each respective manufacturer, and we're all working on filling the gap until then.
   

The BinkJet Printer Driver enables printing to HP DeskJet 850, 855, and 870 inkjet printers, but is not supported by Be, Inc. The BinkJet driver comes to you from Clarkwood Software on BeDepot.

For other brands and types of printers, the best option for you at this time is contacting the printer manufacturer and expressing your interest in a driver for the BeOS.

If you're having problems printing, try the Printing Support Guide.