[nzlug] Being a lazy burger....

[Cliff Pratt]

Daniel Pittman wrote:
> 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.
> 
I didn't snip the link for any particular reason. Here it is again:

http://hplip.sourceforge.net/

I went with a Brother MFC-240C. Brother provide .deb packages.

Cheers,

Cliff