linux and the hp officejet pro 8500 wireless

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 03:45:24PM -0500, Matt London wrote:
> 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.

Oops.  I means to say Canon has never made a good inkjet printer and
probably never will.  Just like Epson has never made a good laser printer.

Canon makes perfectly good laser printer engines it seems.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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