Re: [gentoo-user] new printer : any thoughts ?
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 02:27:44PM +0100, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: 2013/12/11 Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net My ancient printer's ink cartridge has finally dried up the mobo in my regular computer accepts only USB. I don't do much printing, but occasionally need a few pages. The local store has an HP Deskjet 2510 on sale this week. Regarding HP printers and hplip, I recommend buying a printer which does not require a binary plugin [1]. First they are a source of trouble and second the binary plugins are not supported by Gentoo which means there is no maintainer for a plugin ebuild [2]. Plugin installation currently is not under contol of the package manager and hplip tries to automagically download and install the plugin which often fails. I never came to like Ink-squirters. All the mess with dried up print heads, planned-obsolescence and ink more expensive than blood. I am also quite tired of hplip. At some point foo2zjs was masked in portage (never bothered finding out why), so I had to migrate. Hplip is just another thing that puts itself into the tray, but needs cups nonetheless. The download of the printer plugin (or rather, its installation) fails b/c it needs python 2, but doesn't explicitly state that. So if you have python 3 as your system version, the python script fails. I have a laserjet 1000, bought in 2004, it's even still got the original cartridge. It may not be fast and has no duplex mode, but it suits my needs. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla’ Please do not share anything from, with or about me with any Facebook service. The best camouflage is the truth: nobody will believe it anyway!
Re: [gentoo-user] new printer : any thoughts ?
from Philip Webb: My ancient printer's ink cartridge has finally dried up the mobo in my regular computer accepts only USB. I don't do much printing, but occasionally need a few pages. The local store has an HP Deskjet 2510 on sale this week. Does anyone have thoughts or suggestions ? I lean toward Brother from what I hear and from my long-ago experience with Brother AX-26 word-processing daisywheel typewriter. My experience with HP LaserJet M1212nf MFP and their technical support is unfavorable. Their tech support was offshored to India, and there was much difficulty in being understood, both ways, over the telephone. I still haven't succeeded in setting it up. Maybe the assumptions about file system structure are Linux-based and cause failure in NetBSD and FreeBSD. Or maybe the printer is a turkey. This caused me strong aversion to buying anything in the future from HP. What other printer brands require a special package such as hplip for Linux and BSD? Tom
Re: [gentoo-user] new printer : any thoughts ?
2013/12/11 Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net My ancient printer's ink cartridge has finally dried up the mobo in my regular computer accepts only USB. I don't do much printing, but occasionally need a few pages. The local store has an HP Deskjet 2510 on sale this week. Does anyone have thoughts or suggestions ? Regarding HP printers and hplip, I recommend buying a printer which does not require a binary plugin [1]. First they are a source of trouble and second the binary plugins are not supported by Gentoo which means there is no maintainer for a plugin ebuild [2]. Plugin installation currently is not under contol of the package manager and hplip tries to automagically download and install the plugin which often fails. [1] http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/plugin.html [2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=352439 -- Regards Daniel
Re: [gentoo-user] new printer : any thoughts ?
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: 2013/12/11 Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net mailto:purs...@ca.inter.net My ancient printer's ink cartridge has finally dried up the mobo in my regular computer accepts only USB. I don't do much printing, but occasionally need a few pages. The local store has an HP Deskjet 2510 on sale this week. Does anyone have thoughts or suggestions ? Regarding HP printers and hplip, I recommend buying a printer which does not require a binary plugin [1]. First they are a source of trouble and second the binary plugins are not supported by Gentoo which means there is no maintainer for a plugin ebuild [2]. Plugin installation currently is not under contol of the package manager and hplip tries to automagically download and install the plugin which often fails. [1] http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/plugin.html [2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=352439 -- Regards Daniel I been using hplip for a long time. I never had any issue installing it. The only bug I ever had was when it would lock up and not work. I went back to a older version and hit the next update. It worked fine. I guess my mileage varies. lol Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
Re: [gentoo-user] new printer : any thoughts ?
On 12/11/2013 03:01:29 AM, Philip Webb wrote: My ancient printer's ink cartridge has finally dried up the mobo in my regular computer accepts only USB. I don't do much printing, but occasionally need a few pages. The local store has an HP Deskjet 2510 on sale this week. Does anyone have thoughts or suggestions ? Have a look at Kyocera printers. Privately and at our institute we have only the best experiences with Kyocera printers. I have an FS 1028 MFP, it's a reasonably fast bw laser printer. It has a duplex unit for printing AND scanning and copying. It scans bw as well as color sheets. It can be connected via USB and LAN. I have a LAN at home and can print from my Android phone wirelessly. Kyocera has the cheapest cost per print. I would buy it again immediately if necessary. Helmut
Re: [gentoo-user] new printer : any thoughts ?
Am 11.12.2013 03:01, schrieb Philip Webb: My ancient printer's ink cartridge has finally dried up the mobo in my regular computer accepts only USB. I don't do much printing, but occasionally need a few pages. The local store has an HP Deskjet 2510 on sale this week. Does anyone have thoughts or suggestions ? yes, get a laser printer. They are cheap and there is no ink to dry up.
Re: [gentoo-user] new printer : any thoughts ?
Philip Webb wrote: My ancient printer's ink cartridge has finally dried up the mobo in my regular computer accepts only USB. I don't do much printing, but occasionally need a few pages. The local store has an HP Deskjet 2510 on sale this week. Does anyone have thoughts or suggestions ? I usually refer to the hplip website for HP printers. Here is the printer you mentioned. http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/deskjet_aio/deskjet_2510_series.html Based on that, it should work. That printer actually has better support than my current printer. Go figure. Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
Re: [gentoo-user] new printer : any thoughts ?
On 12/10/2013 06:01 PM, Philip Webb wrote: My ancient printer's ink cartridge has finally dried up the mobo in my regular computer accepts only USB. I don't do much printing, but occasionally need a few pages. The local store has an HP Deskjet 2510 on sale this week. Does anyone have thoughts or suggestions ? I got tired of dried out cartridges years ago, and bought a Dell colour laser. It was humongous, I got rid of it last year. Then about two months later I went to print something and went Oh, yeah... I found a HP colour laserjet on sale for $145 (it was actually cheaper than the entry level HP BW lasers at the time) and hooked it up using hplip. That's probably a lot more than an inkjet, but if it costs you $50 a page due to dried ink, a couple of times pays for a laser. http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/laserjet/hp_laserjet_cp1025.html At least I don't have to worry about cartridges drying up, and this printer is a LOT smaller than the one I had. As a bonus, I found out KitKat can print to this printer using the included HP drivers, if that's an issue for you. Was weird printing a recipe from my phone! Dan
