linuxgeek: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Linux Capable Printers

Monday, September 28, 2009

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Linux Capable Printers

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 04:25:23AM -0000, majorridge67 wrote:
> Help! I need a good printer available in the American market that will work on Ubuntu that won't break a college guys budget. Any suggestions?
>

What's good? I always go with HP, because someone hsa usually gotten it
working. I don't do that much printing, so I go for inkjet, as my wife
needs color. As we all know, they usually sell the printers cheaply and
the ink is what costs money. (An HP rep once told me that with their
lowend laser color printers, often, when it ran out of ink, people found
it cheaper to buy new printers.)

One place to check is hplipopensource.com They have a list of HP
printers and what version of hplip is necessary to get it to work. For
example, I picked up an HPC4795 all in one on sale at BestBuy for around
$120--$140 with tax. It works out of the box with Karmic--not sure what
version of hplip Jaunty has. However, with most distributions, even if
they were running older versions of hplip--this particular printer
requires the latest, version 3.9.8, to work--I was able to manually
install hplip and get it working.

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