linuxgeek: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] What Printer, Scanner Are You Using?

On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 06:40:35PM -0000, peppermark1 wrote:
> Looking for a printer and scanner that works as well with Linux as Windows. I've given up on finding a AlO but would like to know what our Group members have found to work well for them. If you will, please give your linux distro & make, model of printer and scanner. Looking to make Linux my OS without having to revert to Windows. Your input would very much be appreciated. Thank you so very much! PM
>

The majority of HP all in ones will work. (But of course, not all of
them.)

You can always check hplipopensource.com for a list of supported HP
printers. (There's also linuxprinting.com, but I've found it to often
be out of date, or confusing it its description.

I use the HPC4795, which works out of the box with most distributions,
though Fedora's hplip, the program used for this, seems to be slightly
broken, and with Fedora, and CentOS, I have to install hplip from the
hplip website.

However, Ubuntu (Lucid and Maverick), Mint, and Arch all work quite well
with it for both printing and scanning.

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