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Re: [opensuse] printer problem
- From: Kai Ponte <kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:07:43 -0700
- Message-id: <200704302007.43661.kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Monday 30 April 2007 06:46:09 pm Doug McGarrett wrote:
> I don't mean to piggyback on this thread, but it seems easiest, and is
> not really OT.
Yeah....right...
</jane curtian mode>
> Having had problems with printers in 9.3, which I intend to stay with
> until probably at least 6 months from now, I would like a recommendation
> for a low-cost laser that will absolutely work with this OS out of the box.
Well, my Epson CX3200 USB printer/scanner worked perfectly out of the box on
9.1 > 10.1. I've had no issues whatsoever. I have an HP 1380 at work
(parallel) which works as well.
My mom's got a HP somethingoranother printer and had an Epson RX300 before
that. (It sucked up too much ink, though.)
> I can use USB or parallel, whichever is more reliable. I am getting more
> and more frustrated with M/S and XP/SP2, and since I lost almost everything
> in a disk crash, now is the time to look more seriously at Linux, but I
> _must_ have working printing!!!
>
> (If I could install and get hplip to work,
AFAIK, hplip only works on 10.0 or newer systems. I've not looked in awhile.
It is a nice utility, tho.
> I might be able to use my big HP
> Laser, that used to work with 10.0, but I've had no luck doing that. Any
> help would be appreciated. Do I have to download a different copy that
> isn't on the floppies from someplace, and if so, where? And how?
>
Dunno. By "big" do you mean an old HP LJIIIsi or a 9500hdn?
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> I don't mean to piggyback on this thread, but it seems easiest, and is
> not really OT.
Yeah....right...
</jane curtian mode>
> Having had problems with printers in 9.3, which I intend to stay with
> until probably at least 6 months from now, I would like a recommendation
> for a low-cost laser that will absolutely work with this OS out of the box.
Well, my Epson CX3200 USB printer/scanner worked perfectly out of the box on
9.1 > 10.1. I've had no issues whatsoever. I have an HP 1380 at work
(parallel) which works as well.
My mom's got a HP somethingoranother printer and had an Epson RX300 before
that. (It sucked up too much ink, though.)
> I can use USB or parallel, whichever is more reliable. I am getting more
> and more frustrated with M/S and XP/SP2, and since I lost almost everything
> in a disk crash, now is the time to look more seriously at Linux, but I
> _must_ have working printing!!!
>
> (If I could install and get hplip to work,
AFAIK, hplip only works on 10.0 or newer systems. I've not looked in awhile.
It is a nice utility, tho.
> I might be able to use my big HP
> Laser, that used to work with 10.0, but I've had no luck doing that. Any
> help would be appreciated. Do I have to download a different copy that
> isn't on the floppies from someplace, and if so, where? And how?
>
Dunno. By "big" do you mean an old HP LJIIIsi or a 9500hdn?
--
kai
Free Compean and Ramos
http://www.grassfire.org/142/petition.asp
http://www.perfectreign.com/?q=node/46
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