ubuntu-ca Digest, Vol 32, Issue 16

[Andy Leeman]

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>
> From: "Chris Powell" <str8line at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: buying a new printer for color printer for Ubuntu 7.04
>         and 7.10
> To: "The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community" <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> I posed a similar question when I purchased my new printer at the local
> Best
> Buy.  I lucked out and there was reps from Canon, HP, Lexmark and Brother
> in
> the store that day.  I liked Canon for years on Windows but when I looked
> the salesman in the eye and said....will it work with linux he gave me a
> blank stare.  The Lexmark rep was equally perplexed but got his laptop
> out,
> logged on to the Lexmark site and said several of its printers were
> supported.  The Brother sales lady had confidence that all but the low end
> printers supported my OS of choice and then the HP rep laughed at me with
> a
> coy grin and said...we wrote the book on Linux Printing.  I chose to buy
> an
> HP 1510 multifunction printer and right out of the box with just a few
> simple clicks on every distro I have ever installed....the printer works
> perfectly.
>
> My last printer purchase was almost 1 year ago so I can not say if the
> other
> manufacturers have caught up to HP in support but my money will stay with
> them for my printing needs.
>
> --
> Chris Powell
> London, ON
>

I recently bought a demo HP Laserjet 2550L from The Source for
169.99because I knew of HP's great Linux support. Unfortunately, the
printer had a
few issues, so had to be returned and I am currently waiting for it's
replacement to arrive from Fredericton.  When I returned it , I was
initially going to get my money back and got to Staples and get the HP
Laserjet 1600 that they have on for 199.99 as it is a smaller, newer printer
and not a demo. Luckily, I checked linuxprinting.org first. The 1600 is not
fully supported yet and when I asked on Launchpad was told that it would be
added to HPLIP in the very near future. This was just last week. Currently
it can print black only using  another opensource driver under Gutsy.
-- 
Andy Leeman
Londonderry, NS
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