Linux Printing: Still Awful After All These Years

[phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org]

www.linuxprinters.org appears not to exist. However, this looks very useful.

http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting

They suggest using the Laserjet driver, which is what I found by trial and
much error.

Much useful troubleshooting information, too. OK I'm ready for the next
round ;).

P.


> 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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