I've given up printing from Linux. I go to Windows 10 laptop, scp the file from Linux, then print from there. Always works. -- William Park <[email protected]>
On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 06:23:38PM -0400, Peter King via talk wrote: > Eric S. Raymond was right about CUPS some fourteen years ago, in his essay > "The Luxury of Ignorance" > (http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cups-horror.html), > and things really haven't gotten any better. Here's an update since I last > posted about six weeks ago. > > I had an HP LaserJet 1100a, which worked reasonably well until its internal > memory went bad. These things happen. So I got a more recent HP Pro 1102w > which is no end of trouble; I could print to it a bit, irregularly, but now > not at all -- everything seems to be configured properly but CUPS reports > "Waiting for printer to become available" and nothing I do, from writing > udev rules to rebooting, makes it available. So I bought another printer, a > Lexmark MS415dn, in part for its three-penguin rating [ = "works perfectly > with Linux"] on openprinting.org, but it does not work perfectly, spitting > out endless pages of gibberish when I sent it PDFs or PostScript files, to > the point where it prints only once out of every two or three attempts. I > won't go through all the details of what I've tried, but I have tried, and > tried, and tried. > > More or less at my wit's end -- actually, I can see my wit's end receding > in the distance in the rear-view mirror -- and proving that I cannot learn > from experience, I'm considering buying something that should just work, > that is, of getting a monochrome single-function laser printer with embedded > PostScript to handle my needs, which, you'd think, would be a sufficiently > humble set of requirements. You'd think. If anyone on this list can > recommend > such a beast, which can run reliably under Linux (specifically arch linux), I > would be almost shamefully greatful. Nearly as good would be cautions about > what to avoid. Thanks. > > -- > Peter King [email protected] > Department of Philosophy > 170 St. George Street #521 > The University of Toronto (416)-946-3170 ofc > Toronto, ON M5R 2M8 > CANADA > > http://individual.utoronto.ca/pking/ > > ========================================================================= > GPG keyID 0x7587EC42 (2B14 A355 46BC 2A16 D0BC 36F5 1FE6 D32A 7587 EC42) > gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 7587EC42 > --- > Post to this mailing list [email protected] > Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk --- Post to this mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
