linuxgeek: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Linux Capable Printers

Monday, September 28, 2009

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Linux Capable Printers

I have a Canon and HP inkjets that both work fine and Samsung and Brother
lasers that work perfectly with Linux. Samsung makes inexpensive but solid
lasers, so does Brother. There are many Brother drivers in the repositories
of Ubuntu. You just need to find the right one and each one lists the
printers it supports.

Roy

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2009/9/28 Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com>

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> 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.
>
> --
> Scott Robbins
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