linux and the hp officejet pro 8500 wireless

[Matt London]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 03:03:14PM -0500, Darryl Moore wrote:
>   
>> Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>>     
>>> All I can say is the HP CM8050MFC is a disaster.  I can't anti-recommend
>>> HP printers highly enough.
>>>
>>> My sister has an Epson Workforce 500 which has so far worked very well
>>> for her (although she uses windows).  I know printing works fine with
>>> gutenprint though, although for scanning iscan from linux.avasys.jp
>>> seems to currently be the only working option.  Not sure how big of a
>>> group it can deal with.
>>>
>>>       
>> That's interesting. I though HP were one of the better companies in
>> terms of Linux support. I've never had any problems with HP printers
>> myself, though I've never used one of their scanners. Who are the better
>> companies then for Linux support?
>>     
>
> Oh HP has decent linux support for their inkjets these days.
> Unfortunately their hardware is shit.  Not something their new open
> source software group can fix unfortunately.
>
> Like the opposite of ATI (great hardware with shit for software).
>
> HP simply can't make a reliable printer anymore.  They seem to have
> forgotten how.
>
> Epson knows relaible inkjets and have by far the best inkjet technology
> of anyone.  Epson does not have a clue when it comes to lasers and I
> think they fortunately stopped trying years ago.  Epson does have some
> cheap inkjets best avoided but they have some very good ones too.
>
> Canon has never made a good printer and probably never will.
>
>   
Just to be a pedant - but I'm sure most of the HP laserjets use canon
print engines - at least they did a few years back.

Matt
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists