Hello, On Sep 9 11:40 Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote (shortened):
IIRC, some printer manufacturers do (or did) brand their boxes with an indication that they supported Linux. I want to say Lexmark did that, but I may be misremembering. I do remember a period of time when I was writing reviews that Lexmark was being very aggressive about getting reviews of its printers with Linux.
Which is really bad for the user in this particular case: Lexmark has or had "Linux support" on the box but their drivers were bad (proprietary stuff for LPRng without good CUPS support) while HP has no such information while their driver is good.
Anyway - it can be frustrating. I do hope anyone who doesn't like the current situation will take some time to email or get in touch with manufacturers and let them know when you vote with your $currency with another vendor that has better Linux support... that, and driving Linux as a mainstream platform, are the only things that are going to change the situation.
This is the one any only way which rally works because $currency of customers is the one any only "language" which is understood. I sent many mails to various printer manufacturers but it is totally useless when the manufacturer does not want to make a good driver for Linux. On the other hand when the manufacturer really wants to make a good driver for Linux, the communication just works because in this case there is a common interest to have a good driver for Linux. I.e. the final result is just what the manufacturers wants regardless how many mails I sent. What "good driver" means, see http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Information_for_Printer_Manufacturers_Regarding_L... Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org