There is a large market for it! (I got my bonus last quarter) Your problem, as far as I can see, is not that machines are not available but that they might not be affordable for you.
Contact me off-list for a price for a multifunctional machine which I can guarantee will print from Linux with cups and scan to ftp. Regards, Robert Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windscreen. -----Original Message----- From: Jason Greenwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 11 March 2004 9:25 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Lexmark X215 MFP Thanks for the input! It's going to be a mission to find an affordable, Linux Compatible, Laser based MFP, I can see that now. Bummer. I'd think there was a large market for it. I have never understood why Kiwi's are so enamored with Inkjets! The bloody cartridges are more than the printers!! I hate them, they are fiddly, expensive and a general PITA and their print quality in my experience aint great. Oh well, when in Rome... Cheers Jason Barry wrote: > I bought a Lexmark Z32 inkjet some time ago - no more Lexmark for me. > > Their available driver I downloaded did not work, and no source code or > updates for later kernels. > > The cups driver is far from satisfactory - vertical alignment is often > out of line on subsequent passes and vertical lines are almost zigzag. > > Support was very polite and useless. > > I suggest you look at another make. > > Barry > -------------------------- > > Jason Greenwood wrote: > >>Hi All, >> >>Anyone gotten this printer to play nice with mandrake/Linux (any Laser >>MFP's for that matter)? If so, how?? Their product PDF shows a Penguin >>but I could find NO info re using it with Linux anywhere (Google or >>otherwise). And, there is no driver that I could see in MCC for it. >> >>Product URL's (Lexmark X215 MFP): >>http://www.lexmark.com/US/products/tech_specs/0%2C1231%2CMzU1Nnwx%2C00.htm l >>http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0%2C4149%2C1437036%2C00.asp >> >>Cheers >> >>Jason > > >
