[olug] Printers and Linux compatibility

[Brian Wiese]

I was just reading something about HP and their multifunction (officejet)
printer support for GNU/Linux, there is even a nice sourceforge page
dedicated to it. [1]  I recently installed cups in Debian, got all the
driver packages/database and all - I was quite suprised, there was a lot
of printers listed in there.  As for multifunction printers though, this
is all I have seen.  I would definately go with HP in this respect (almost
all printing respects) and because they tend to give a lot of Linux
support.  I think so does Epson (with scanners?) [2]

[1] http://hpoj.sourceforge.net/
[2] http://www.buzzard.org.uk/jonathan/scanners-usb.html
http://www.freecolormanagement.com/sane/index.html
http://www.epkowa.co.jp/english/linux_e/linux.html

peace
Brian

On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:30:54 -0600
"Craig Wolf" <CJWolf at mpsomaha.org> wrote:

|I have been asked for info to provide as part of a spec for
|multi-function printers coming into the district.  We want them to be
|"Linux Compatible", you know, to prepare for possible future
|transitions.  8<)  I am looking for opinions on now to phrase that. 
|Should I goto the level of "being compatible with CUPS and LPRng",
|should I just say that "it has to work with LSB compatible systems" or
|is there something else I am missing that would be better?  Anything
|would be helpful...
|
|Thanx to all in advance!
|
|
|Craig Wolf
|Linux Web Server Support
|Backup Supervisor
|Desktop/Network Specialist
|402-894-6283
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