[nzlug] Being a lazy burger....

[Daniel Pittman]

Cliff Pratt <enkidu at cliffp.com> writes:
> Daniel Pittman wrote:
>> Cliff Pratt <enkidu at cliffp.com> writes:
>>
>>> I'm being a lazy burger and asking before I've done the research....
>>>
>>> So, how do these USB attached printers and MFCs go on Linux? I've
>>> always used parallel printers till now. In this case I'm using CUPS on
>>> Ubuntu....
>>
>> Buy an HP unit and everything will work.  Buy anything else and you can
>> generally kiss your investment goodbye at the moment.
>>
>> Not only do HP deliver hardware that uses open standards (as a rule)
>> they deliver documentation *and* they actually write and (to some
>> degree) support the open source drivers for their hardware.
>
> Um, no, that is not my experience at all. If it doesn't run on
> DeadRat, they don't want to know.

My personal experience disagrees with you -- I have a completely
functional and working HP MFC (scan, print, memory card reader) working
under Ubuntu.

The HP Linux Imaging and Printing software, which link you snipped from
the message, also disagrees with you: that is the (open source) HP
software distribution that provides drivers for their hardware.


A couple of years back, sure, you would have been right.  At that stage
none of the vendors had anything that was usable on Linux.

HP have made significant changes and now deliver Linux support that no
other MFC vendor[1] does, to the best of my knowledge.

Regards,
        Daniel

Footnotes: 
[1]  ...at least, at the < $20,000 price-tag scale.

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