Linux Printing: Still Awful After All These Years

[Gary Layng]

I'm glad you didn't take my tongue-in-cheek posting the wrong way.

I must confess before I selected the printer, I went to www.linuxprinters.org, 
which has a superb database indicating how well different printers work in 
Linux.  It also has drivers.

So the printer I selected was one that had a "no problems" review.

On Wednesday 12 March 2008 22:59, phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org wrote:
> > Maybe the problem is the distribution I'm using, Mandriva?  Maybe I
> > should have selected a Samsung instead of a Hewlett-Packard?
>
> I hear that Mandriva has a good printer setup system.
>
> These problems may have something to do with Samsung: as far as I could
> tell their original Linux driver did not work under Suse. They have a new
> one, but that doesn't work with Ubuntu.
>
> On the other hand, the Samsung laser printer hardware seems very nice in
> all other respects.

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