Linux Printing: Still Awful After All These Years

[John Myshrall]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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).
>
>   
I personally like the Samsung units. I took a ML2010 and a Netgear PS 
121 printserver and made a networked printer. total cost $ 120.00 but 
that was 2 years ago. It is only for home office use and well kids home 
work though.

Len I'm curious about what your take is on them.

John





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