Printers (was Re: [nzlug] Being a lazy burger....)

[Hadley Rich]

On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:02:27 Daniel Pittman wrote:
> 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.

I fully agree. Both of the HP printers I have setup have been far easier in 
Linux than they were in Windows.

One was a simple old inkjet and the other is a wireless MFC inkjet. With hplip 
everything seems to just work, and work well.

I've been really pleased with HP printers, and the fact that they support open 
projects for their hardware makes me recommend them whenever anyone asks 
about printers.

hads

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