Re: [tlug] Laser printer for Linux

[nigel barker <nigel@example.com>]

My advice is to stay away from proprietary Linux drivers. I have a canon laser at school that I gave up trying to get working with their Linux driver, and instead gave to a teacher with windows. Then I had an old brother mfc that used to work with etch and Lenny, but they stopped updating their driver and something changed in squeeze that meant it stopped working.
I usually check what's covered by gutenprint before buying nowadays. I have had good experiences with epsons, though not all are covered by a long way.

Nigel

On Nov 22, 2014 9:09 PM, "Scott Robbins" <scottro@example.com> wrote:

On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 11:01:00AM +0100, Benjamin Tayehanpour wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 17:47:31 -0500
> Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com> wrote:
>
>
> > It does seem cool though. As for me, in the last 10 years or so, I've used
> > only HP and Brother, and in all cases, they worked with Linux and FreeBSD.
> > I think I've used HPLIP for most of the HP printers--I put up a page at one
> > point about using it on CentOS because the documentation at that time
> > had left out things.
>
> This is pretty much consistent with my experiences. I wish other vendors would learn from HP and Brother.

I sooo want to do the TLUG thing and now take it into a rant about support
for Linux and the BSDs--it seems to me that even if say, OpenBSD has only
7,000 users (a figure from slashdot, no idea of its accuracy or lack of
it), making a printer and saying, Yes, we support OpenBSD will get 7,000
people more likely to support your company.

> Actually, are there any good reasons why there shouldn't be a unified driver for printing, as there seems to be with mass storage and the like? General-purpose printers aren't *that* unique, despite marketing departments' efforts to spread information to the contrary.
>

It seems (to my simple mind at least) that the easier it is to use your
printer, the better your business will do. I wonder if one reason HP is so
well known as a printer company is the fact that they seem to put effort
into making their printers work with most systems, not just Windows.


> > http://srobb.net/elephant.jpg
>
> Now there's a shaggy beast!

One balding person at work said they were jealous.  :)

It looks as if he's wearing a toupee.


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