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On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 3:38 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:13:32 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: |
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>> > What printer do you have. I use foo2zjs with a LaserJet 1022 and |
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>> > thought it was the only way, not that it causes me any problems. |
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>> I have the LaserJer 1020, foo2zjs used to be the only way to print for |
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>> me, too; by chance, I was looking at HPLIP the other day and saw 1020 |
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>> was now in the supported printers list (it wasn't when I bought the |
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>> printer). Looks like 1022 is there, too. |
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> That's worth looking at, AFAICT the 1020 and 1022 are basically the same. |
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> Do you have any particular objection to foo2zjs or is it just an OCD |
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> attitude to not having unnecessary packages installed? |
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It never worked easily for me, I always had to spend 45 minutes |
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screwing around with the printer to get anything to come out. |
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Conflicts with usblp module. Also, the installation process left some |
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things to be desired (e.g. foo2zjs webpage explicitly states not to |
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use distributions packages and to install it manually instead). |
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Basically it was always a hassle for me. |
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HPLIP is an official (and supported?) driver and seems to have all the |
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features that the Windows printer drivers have, which foo2zjs didn't |
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necessarily do (or do as easily). More importantly, it worked right |
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the first time I tried it. :) |
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