On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 9:05 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Donnerstag 04 Dezember 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann >> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Donnerstag 04 Dezember 2008, Mark Knecht 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. >> > >> > forget the 'opensource' printers, and buy a turboprint licence. It rocks. >> > It really does. >> >> I'll have to write them and get some answers. Can I run it on multiple >> machines using a singe license. None of my printers were in their >> supported list so do they support them or not? They should be able to >> answer those sorts of questions. >> >> However, their list of supported devices is still much smaller than >> the Open Source list so it begs the same question... Even though they >> have support for a nice set of printers, which of those printers can >> be purchased new today through normal retail channels? >> >> Thanks for the idea. I'd not heard of them. >> >> Cheers, >> Mark > > my story: I have a canon pixma ip3300. With opensource drivers I got either no > picture, wrong colours or the paper was completly wet. > > I asked turboprint, shortly afterwards I was able to buy a licence for a > driver perfectly supporting my printer on amd64. >
They seem to be nice guys. Responded to my questions pretty quickly. Basically it seems that they try to support new printers as soon as reasonably possible. I guess they wait for requests and queue your printer up or something. No input from them as to finding a new printer that is supported out of the box. They may be getting a bit expensive for me. Our printers are attached to 3 different machines in different houses. Their single license only allows me to run two printers on a single machine so I have to start buying licenses for each house. I will definitely keep them in mind. thanks, Mark
