Linux Printing: Still Awful After All These Years

[Gary Layng]

That used to be linuxprinters.org.  If you google "linux printer" you will see 
that domain.  The Google link takes you to the Linux Foundations open 
printing page.

On Wednesday 12 March 2008 23:20, phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org wrote:
> 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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