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Does anyone have a good way of figuring out what printers that you can |
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actually buy in the retail market place actually have support in |
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Linux? I sure don't. |
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Over the past 10 years I've gone the route of looking at the ads, |
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finding printers in the right price range and then looking at |
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http://www.linuxprinting.org to determine if there is any support. |
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Invariably what comes up is that printer life in the retail chain is |
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so short that whatever Fry's is selling is too new so Cups doesn't |
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have support, and by the time Cups does have support the printer is no |
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longer for sale. No better shopping through NewEgg or Amazon, etc. as |
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I run into the same problem... |
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What's a guy to do? My folks need a new unit. (I guess!) It's not |
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working anymore as it's always been an unsupported model as far as I |
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can tell. It's a Canon MP310. I had it working a year ago with the |
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MP150 driver but it no longer works with recent Cups releases so |
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either it broke or it's truly unsupported now. I may have to go back |
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to some old Cups release but we'd like to find a unit that's really |
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supported if possible. My market is West Coast California or U.S. |
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online sales. |
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Anyway, how does one go about really finding a sub-$100 home ink-jet |
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type printer that has Linux support? |
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Thanks, |
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Mark |
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