Linux Printing: Still Awful After All These Years

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 08:35:08PM -0400, Paul King wrote:
> 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.

Well the few brother printers I have ever worked with were about like
that.  They claim to be compatible with HP such and such, except they
aren't compatible with the margins so things print offset with bits cut
off, etc.  Crappy products is my opinion.

For inkjets I stick with Epson, and for laser printers I will take a
xerox with postscript built in (not the cheapest xerox winprinters).
That way linux support is trivial in general (although the epsons often
have to be 3 to 6 months old before gutenprint gets full support for
them, but it does happen).

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Len Sorensen
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