On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 at 22:20 -0600, Shane Hathaway wrote: > Joseph Hall wrote: > > I hate to go off topic by asking about something Linux related, but I > > need some opinions, preferably on Linux-friendly printers. Can anyone > > direct me to a good Linux-friendly printer that is currently on the > > market? I'm not looking for much. At the moment, I only have the > > occasional file that I need to print out (mostly airline boarding > > passes for work), but I'm sure that if I brought a printer home, my > > wife would be interested in printing out photos. > > > > Does anyone have any current printers that they have found to work > > reasonably well in recent Linux distros? > > FWIW, don't buy a Samsung printer/scanner combo like I did. The > hardware is good, but even though they advertise Linux compatibility, > the driver is a proprietary binary blob. I'll do HP or Epson next time.
I'm happy with my samsung scx4100. It is a binary blob, and at first there were some issues (they've been smoothed out since), but it works great in Linux and it's an affordable laser (B&W) printer and scanner combo. If you have the money though, by all means go with a postscript printer that sits on the LAN instead of the parallell port or USB. You can't go wrong there. -- Hans Fugal ; http://hans.fugal.net There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach
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