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That's right, i totaly agree. If you buy a HP-printer, you (almost) can't do something wrong. I am using a HP Deskjet F2180 (40¤). Printing and scanning both work without problems. |
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On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 22:00:28 -0800 |
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"Manuel McLure" <manuel@××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 7:44 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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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> Almost all HP printers are well-supported in Linux using the hplip |
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> open source drivers which act as a backend to CUPS and are developed |
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> with help from HP. hplip also supports features such as scanning on |
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> all-in-ones. hplip is available in most modern distributions. For a |
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> complete list of supported printers, go to |
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> http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/supported_devices/index.html - |
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> there are over 1500 printers listed. In fact, there are less than 20 |
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> HP printers that _aren't_ supported by the hplip drivers! |
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> Thanks to HP's support of open source drivers for their printers I |
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> don't look anywhere else when deciding on a printer to buy. |
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> -- |
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> Manuel A. McLure WW1FA <manuel@××××××.org> <http://www.mclure.org> |
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> ...for in Ulthar, according to an ancient and significant law, |
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> no man may kill a cat. -- H.P. Lovecraft |
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