This conversation is becoming a little pointless. The initial point of the thread was whether a particular MFP had linux drivers.
It seems to have degenerated to a discussion of printers in general, and the failings (or otherwise) of HP printers. The fact is, from this list's purpose and perspective, HP rank among the highest performers in terms of their track record of linux support. Lexmark rank among the worst. Canon are medioce. I quoted from the linuxprinting site in a previous message and linked to the page for people to read it for themselves. I hope people will support the products from the manufacturers that support linux. I do. If you don't like HP for other reasons, then other manufacturers do rate quite high. (higher than canon and lexmark anyway) My recommendation to Jason must now be: 1. get a laser (as thats what you want) with linux support. HP, whatever. 2. get a fax modem and install hylafax or some other solution if you want a fax machine. 3. buy a linux supported scanner too. hey presto, MFP, without all that spare deskspace for paper to lie around on :-) It seems you won't get a laser MFP with linux everything working. i seem to recall xsane has a "scan and fax" option. kde/cups has various print to fax options. (By the way, MFP....eripheral MFD...evice MFC? On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 16:25:00 +1300 Paul Wilkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jamie Dobbs wrote: > > >>So it's old, so what? it only highlighted the flaws that were already > >>present in most Deskjets from day 1: > >> > >>1. 180 degree paper path > >> > >> > > > >Not sure what you mean here? > > > > > > I presume that what's meant by that is that the paper goes down, around > he bottom and back up again. It means that printing on things like card > is a difficult business. > > We have a Brother MFC-5200C at work and that's great so far as printing > goes. While the paper goes through the 180 degree turn, you can flip > down a panel at the rear and feed through on a perfectly straight path. > We have printed on sheet metal with that thing. > > -- > Paul Wilkins -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
