[nzlug] Being a lazy burger....

[Cliff Pratt]

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.

(local staff aside - if you can talk to someone local, they might try to 
help you, and there are some good guys there).

Cheers,

Cliff