Lexmark Z645 Printer

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 02 December 2007, D. Michael McIntyre wrote:
>On Sunday 02 December 2007, David McGlone wrote:
>> > printed right on the box, and that was pretty deceptive of them.  It
>> > came with an old binary driver for a version of Red Hat that was
>> > obsolete at the time of purchase, and that was all they felt they needed
>> > to do to claim "Works with Linux" prominently.
>>
>> You too? Wouldn't you call this shady? I do.
>
>Probably not shady, as long as the printer actually works with Red Hat
>Enterprise 0.3.2 with a 2.0.x series kernel, but definitely obnoxious and
>tricky.
>
>Buying from HP or Brother is a lot more satisfying.

Or Epson, I've found the C-8x series capable of very fine photographic work, 
as long as I use my own gutenprint-5.0.1 derived driver.  When there is a 
quality shootout at Epson HQ in Germany, an annual event, these drivers 
regularly hand the windows drivers their collective heads on platters.

>--
>D. Michael McIntyre



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