On Sun, 2011-01-09 at 02:55 +0000, Rob Beard wrote: > Hi folks, > > I wonder if anyone could advise me on something... > > I've offered to setup two old basic laptops running Ubuntu (not sure > which flavor yet) for a local children's group so the kids can do simple > drawings on Tuxpaint and play with basic educational games etc. > > What I'd like to do to make things simple for the staff is to get either > a wireless printer or a wireless print server with a USB port so that > these two laptops can print to it. > > There isn't going to be any other wireless networks where the laptops > will be used (so I guess it would need to be an adhoc network) and I > just want them to be able to plug in the laptops and printer and print, > then be able to disconnect it all and put it away at the end of a session. > > I've not got much experience with wireless printers (I've only set one > expensive looking HP one up for someone on a Mac and Windows) but I've > got reasonably good experience of setting up network printers on Ubuntu > (HP and Lexmark printers) and I'm wondering if anyone could either > suggest a budget inkjet printer with wireless (the cheaper the better) > or a wireless to USB print server which is known to work with Linux? > > Ta, > > Rob > I would suggest that you avoid the HP F4580 all-in-one printer/scanner/copier. I own one and its wireless performance is poor, both with Ubuntu and windows. You may see it advertised suspiciously cheap in some stores, and now you know why.
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