[Cialug] Printers

Dave J. Hala Jr. dave at 58ghz.net
Tue Jan 9 15:02:12 CST 2007


Am I seeing a recurring theme here? Its looking more and more like
Ubuntu is of the more printer and wireless friendly distro's out
there...

On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 14:50, Aaron Korver wrote:
> I have a HP Network printer with wireless capability.  It was a snap
> to setup with my Ubuntu system.  All HPs have been well supported
> through CUPS.  Guess I'm pretty brand loyal to them.
> 
> Aaron Korver
> 
> On 1/9/07, James Shoemaker <james at dhlake.com> wrote:
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>         Stuart Thiessen wrote:
>         > Just curious if you have found any particular printer or
>         brand of
>         > printers to be more or less friendly under Linux? I have a
>         Lexmark at 
>         > home and I found out that there are no drivers for my
>         particular model
>         > of Lexmark printer. So I became curious about this from the
>         average user
>         > point of view.
>         
>           I was given a Canon iP4000 for christmas a few years ago (I
>         know, I 
>         should have gotten something with PS, but it was a gift) and
>         found the
>         OS drivers to be poor, but ended up getting turboprint to take
>         full use
>         of the printer.
>         http://www.turboprint.info/
>         
>         James
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