[olug] Printers and Linux compatibility

[Jay Swackhamer]

The only thing missing for the HP officejet series, is the fax capability
from the workstations.

If you need a deployed example/testimonial, I have an HP G95 on my
network, with shared printing/scanning setup.


> 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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