[GTALUG] Continuing Printer Woes

[William Park]

I've given up printing from Linux.  I go to Windows 10 laptop, scp the
file from Linux, then print from there.  Always works.
-- 
William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>

On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 06:23:38PM -0400, Peter King via talk wrote:
> Eric S. Raymond was right about CUPS some fourteen years ago, in his essay
> "The Luxury of Ignorance" (http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cups-horror.html),
> and things really haven't gotten any better.  Here's an update since I last
> posted about six weeks ago.
> 
> I had an HP LaserJet 1100a, which worked reasonably well until its internal
> memory went bad.  These things happen.  So I got a more recent HP Pro 1102w
> which is no end of trouble; I could print to it a bit, irregularly, but now
> not at all -- everything seems to be configured properly but CUPS reports 
> "Waiting for printer to become available" and nothing I do, from writing
> udev rules to rebooting, makes it available.  So I bought another printer, a 
> Lexmark MS415dn, in part for its three-penguin rating [ = "works perfectly 
> with Linux"] on openprinting.org, but it does not work perfectly, spitting 
> out endless pages of gibberish when I sent it PDFs or PostScript files, to 
> the point where it prints only once out of every two or three attempts.  I
> won't go through all the details of what I've tried, but I have tried, and
> tried, and tried.
> 
> More or less at my wit's end -- actually, I can see my wit's end receding
> in the distance in the rear-view mirror -- and proving that I cannot learn
> from experience, I'm considering buying something that should just work,
> that is, of getting a monochrome single-function laser printer with embedded 
> PostScript to handle my needs, which, you'd think, would be a sufficiently 
> humble set of requirements.  You'd think.  If anyone on this list can recommend 
> such a beast, which can run reliably under Linux (specifically arch linux), I 
> would be almost shamefully greatful.  Nearly as good would be cautions about
> what to avoid.  Thanks.
> 
> -- 
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