Linux Printing: Still Awful After All These Years

[Paul King]

I have a Brother InkJet MFC640CW for which Brother (or someone at the
CUPS website) provided the drivers, but the recommeneded drivers never
worked. My multifunction printer is currently a paperweight, sad to say.
Test pages are happily gobbled up by the drivers, but no printing ever
takes place, and no error messages that I am aware of ever pops up.

Paul King

On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 23:20 -0400, 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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> Peter Hiscocks
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