On Mon, 3 Sep 2018, King Beowulf wrote:
You may want to poke around gutenprint (included in Slackware) first to
locate printers with CUPS ppd drivers already built in to save time
wrestling with .deb/.rpm driver files:
http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/p_Supported_Printers.php
and also here for info and caveats on proprietary drivers:
http://www.openprinting.org/drivers
I've had good luck with HP printers and HPLIP - most of HP printers use
F/OSS drivers with some multifunction exceptions (plugin for scanning).
Color, of course, boosts the toner price by a bit and the draconian
"genuine" crapola is annoying.
Ed,
I've had several HP printers and they all 'just worked' with linux. My
issue with the HP color laserjet is that it will not work with a non-HP
refilled toner cartridge; at least, not with the ones I bought. The
monochrome LJ5 works perfectly with the Cartridge World refurbished
cartridge, but not the 2550C.
Looking on the web I learned that there are several vendors who sell
guaranteed-to-work toner cartridges for the Dell c1670nw printer. And,
apparently the 4-cartridge set Amazon sells for $20 will work with it, too.
So, tomorrow I order a new printer. It comes with the standard lightly
filled cartridges, but as little as I use it I probably won't need to buy
replacements for a while.
I'll see if there's already a CUPS driver for it. If not, I have both the
.deb and .rpm versions downloaded.
Best regards,
Rich
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