On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Quiliro Ordóñez <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear friends. > > I am looking for low cost laser printers and have found 2 in my area: > Hewlett Packard HP1005 (103,90 USD + tax) > Samsung ML2240 (76 USD + tax) > > Any of these compatible with freedom?
The FSF Hardware Database for Printers[1] provides a general explanation for printer support. There are two reliable places to check: the HPLIP Project[2] (note: Driver Plug-in column should say No) for HP printers and the OpenPrinting Database[3] (beware of non-free drivers and firmware) for all printers. HP LaserJet 1005 Series: The free HPLIP driver has support for the printer, but requires additional *non-free* firmware to function.[4] The OpenPrinting Database says the printer is also supported by the free foo2zjs driver, but I can't verify for certain if any additional non-free firmware is required.[5] (Someone else's input, please?) I couldn't find any reliable info on the Samsung ML2240. Samsung may have their own non-free driver. As a recommendation, if feasible, try to look for a printer which supports PostScript. If the printer supports PostScript it will almost definitely be compatible with freedom. Cheers, Dara [1] http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/printers [2] http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/supported_devices/combined.html [3] http://www.openprinting.org/printer_list.cgi [4] http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/laserjet/hp_laserjet_1005_series.html [5] http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-LaserJet_1005 _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
