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.
On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 22:00:28 -0800 "Manuel McLure" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 7:44 PM, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone have a good way of figuring out what printers that you can > > actually buy in the retail market place actually have support in > > Linux? I sure don't. > > Almost all HP printers are well-supported in Linux using the hplip > open source drivers which act as a backend to CUPS and are developed > with help from HP. hplip also supports features such as scanning on > all-in-ones. hplip is available in most modern distributions. For a > complete list of supported printers, go to > http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/supported_devices/index.html - > there are over 1500 printers listed. In fact, there are less than 20 > HP printers that _aren't_ supported by the hplip drivers! > > Thanks to HP's support of open source drivers for their printers I > don't look anywhere else when deciding on a printer to buy. > > -- > Manuel A. McLure WW1FA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.mclure.org> > ...for in Ulthar, according to an ancient and significant law, > no man may kill a cat. -- H.P. Lovecraft
