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Alfredo Cole

17 Oct 2002 17 Oct '02

14:51

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi: I'm thinking of buying a new printer, USB. The ones I'm considering, which are available locally, are: Canon S-100 USB Epson C-42SX USB HP 656C USB Any one using them with SuSE 8.0? Thank you and regards. - -- Alfredo J. Cole http://www.acyc.com (Accounting Systems) http://www.clshonduras.com (Linux Hardware) PGP Key available from certserver.pgp.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9rs5zu5DxuPWE298RArHtAJ9WFNgqJ+DQ6//pnQNW4Onet/8hxgCfXvXU 4djm8nncoWOBVqajy498gPw= =nPy6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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John Pettigrew

17 Oct 17 Oct

15:00

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In a previous message, Alfredo Cole wrote:

I'm thinking of buying a new printer, USB. The ones I'm considering, which are available locally, are:

Canon S-100 USB Epson C-42SX USB HP 656C USB

Assuming that you mean the C42UX (not SX, which I think is the parallel version), I have a C40UX and it worked fine out of the box with SuSE 8.1. HTH, John -- John Pettigrew Headstrong Games john@headstrong-games.co.uk Fun : Strategy : Price http://www.headstrong-games.co.uk/ Board games that won't break the bank Fields of Valour: 2 Norse clans battle on one of 3 different boards

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Alfredo Cole

15:08

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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 El Jue 17 Oct 2002 09:00, John Pettigrew escribió: (...)

Assuming that you mean the C42UX (not SX, which I think is the parallel version), I have a C40UX and it worked fine out of the box with SuSE 8.1.

HTH,

John

Right. I'm sorry. Thank you. - -- Alfredo J. Cole http://www.acyc.com (Accounting Systems) http://www.clshonduras.com (Linux Hardware) PGP Key available from certserver.pgp.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9rtJ0u5DxuPWE298RAgXVAJ9y6RTOArm7PXJufWJqvOG+hxPjPACfTDel FbE+Zg93Uymk9/Lzz+skB6k= =ia7i -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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zentara

15:32

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On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 08:51:31 -0600 Alfredo Cole wrote:

I'm thinking of buying a new printer, USB. The ones I'm considering, which are available locally, are:

Canon S-100 USB Epson C-42SX USB HP 656C USB

Any one using them with SuSE 8.0? Thank you and regards.

Go to http://linuxprinting.org they have a list of all printers and how well they work with linux. Are you in the states? I just got a HP 930c (parallel and/or usb) for 77 dollars from compgeeks.com. It works great. I would be looking at how easy it is to refill the cartridges if I were you; of course maybe you can afford new catridges everytime. One drawback with the Epsons is that Epson is making it hard to do refills, they have some sensor in the cartridges, but I think the older models still can be fooled easily. The HP's are easy to refill. -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation

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Donn aka N5XWB

15:44

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zentara wrote:

On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 08:51:31 -0600 Alfredo Cole wrote:

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I'm thinking of buying a new printer, USB. The ones I'm considering, which are available locally, are:

Canon S-100 USB Epson C-42SX USB HP 656C USB

Any one using them with SuSE 8.0? Thank you and regards.

Go to http://linuxprinting.org they have a list of all printers and how well they work with linux. Are you in the states? I just got a HP 930c (parallel and/or usb) for 77 dollars from compgeeks.com. It works great. I would be looking at how easy it is to refill the cartridges if I were you; of course maybe you can afford new catridges everytime. One drawback with the Epsons is that Epson is making it hard to do refills, they have some sensor in the cartridges, but I think the older models still can be fooled easily.

The HP's are easy to refill.

DO NOT use cheap refill cartriages on a Epson printers. They destroyed my Epson printer and the cost of repair (with me doing the work) is over 150 dollars. Epson has heads built into the unit where as Lexmark and HP have them on the cartriage. So refilling (if it fails to work) can be fixed on HP and Lexmark by just buying a new cartriage. -- 73 de Donn Washburn __ " http://www.hal-pc.org/~dwash " Ham Callsign N5XWB / / __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 307 Savoy St. / /__ / / / \/ / / /_/ / \ \/ / Sugar Land, TX 77478 /_____/ /_/ /_/\__/ /_____/ /_/\_\ LL# 1.281.242.3256 a MSDOS Virus "Free Zone" OS Email: n5xwb@arrl.net Info: http://www.austinlug.org

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Alfredo Cole

15:50

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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 El Jue 17 Oct 2002 09:32, zentara escribió: (...)

Go to http://linuxprinting.org they have a list of all printers and how well they work with linux. Are you in the states? I just got a HP 930c (parallel and/or usb) for 77 dollars from compgeeks.com. It works great. I would be looking at how easy it is to refill the cartridges if I were you; of course maybe you can afford new catridges everytime. One drawback with the Epsons is that Epson is making it hard to do refills, they have some sensor in the cartridges, but I think the older models still can be fooled easily.

The HP's are easy to refill.

Thank you. I found the info at linuxprinting.org. Regards. - -- Alfredo J. Cole http://www.acyc.com (Accounting Systems) http://www.clshonduras.com (Linux Hardware) PGP Key available from certserver.pgp.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9rtwqu5DxuPWE298RAt4OAJ0RLhbSSOjOVVF0gJclVh2f7hSRoACfS1Br ggXkZ5TnrJK0jvUN4nLGdlQ= =8f1Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Glenn Pedersen

18 Oct 18 Oct

21:06

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On Friday 18 October 2002 12:51 am, Alfredo Cole wrote:

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Hi:

I'm thinking of buying a new printer, USB. The ones I'm considering, which are available locally, are:

Canon S-100 USB Epson C-42SX USB HP 656C USB

Any one using them with SuSE 8.0? Thank you and regards.

I have the HP 656C USB and Suse 8.0 found it on installation and it works fine for me in either colour or black. Good cheap printer I reckon. Glenn

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Andre Truter

19 Oct 19 Oct

07:50

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On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 23:06, Glenn Pedersen wrote:

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Hi:

I'm thinking of buying a new printer, USB. The ones I'm considering, which are available locally, are:

Canon S-100 USB Epson C-42SX USB HP 656C USB

Any one using them with SuSE 8.0? Thank you and regards.

I would suggest that you go for the Epson or HP, but not the Cannon. AFAIK Cannon don't want to supply technical info for open source drivers to be written. We have 2 very nice Cannon printers and one old, slow Cannon at work and I can only find a driver for the old one. Epson have their own Linux drivers for some printers (although they are now sorting out some issues with the GPL, so the drivers are not available yet) You should also get very good results by using the Gimp-Print drivers and CUPS HP is also supported well by CUPS and Gimp-print and the other print servers. HTH -- Andre Truter Software Engineer Registered Linux user #185282 ICQ #40935899 AIM: trusoftzaf http://www.trusoft.za.net <-------------------------------------------------> < The box said: Requires Windows 95 or better... > < So I installed Linux > <------------------------------------------------->

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Alfredo Cole
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Glenn Pedersen
John Pettigrew
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