I also would favour HP at first, regardless of other factors, because > of their close relationship with the FOSS drivers. The wrapped drivers > package I think called HPLIP is installed in Ubuntu by default, or so > it has seemed to me anyway. However a problem I have found, via a > novice friend who went out and and bought himself a new (end of line) > all in one HP printer was that the regular updates in Ubuntu do not > seem to pick up the latest HPLIP by a long way. This meant that my > novice but stolid friend found it did not work in Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS > (updated) and was then in conversation with the given support phone > number (HP) for long conversations. As I discovered later, he had > downloaded the latest HPLIP, manually, multiple times within the > support conversation (7 times I think!) but he had not been able to > successfully complete the subsequent instructions, until the HP > support politely gave up saying they did not really support Linux on > that line. Kudos to them to persist that long!! > > Removing the old HPLIP in his Ubuntu and installing the new one > manually was not difficult for me but it was way above my friend. > However if the HPLIP was kept more up to date in the repos it would > have gone along easily and probably automatically. > > -- > alan cocks > Ubuntu user >
Is that not worth a bug report? HPLIP package not kept up to date on automatic updates? -- Regards, Andy
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