Dave Hall wrote: > I have a HP Officejet J5780 which works well - with FOSS drivers bundled > in ubuntu. It priced at around $180+ on staticice.com.au (comparison > shopping site).
This topic comes up frequently on this and many other mailing lists, and the answer is generally the same: HP are the way to go. They have made an enormous commitment to writing and releasing first-party FLOSS drivers for an enormous range of their printing, scanning and multifunction devices. Most of these are included with a default Ubuntu install, and the rest can be installed easily via your package manager (hplip, hpijs and hpoj are the three important ones I think). It's worth noting that the printing backend of MacOSX is CUPS (indeed, Apple now own CUPS after purchasing it from Easy Software Products last year, and are funding it's development entirely). Printer manufacturers that support CUPS are immediately supporting Linux, MacOSX and a wide range of UNIX and BSD systems as well. HP understand this, and have chosen a smart business path by releasing a great deal of their printing and scanning software drivers for free. They are the defacto choice for many businesses that use both FOSS and Apple Mac software for these reasons. -Dan -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
