On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Felix Miata
My first ever success making my Canon work with Linux was by getting a driver from Canon's UK site.
Good to know I wasn't the only one that stumbled on that oddity from Canon.
of mostly relative junk. Multiple times I was called upon to help with or perform HP driver installation in Windows. It was incredible to me how difficult HP could make it to get a driver installed and working, while on a Mac, HP was always pure plug & play.
HP has been purely plug and play in Linux for all consumer class HP printers... on Windows it's a mess of over-bloated drivers and junk apps that get installed... it's amazing how much silliness you have to go through on the Windows side. Just saying... don't let your bad experiences with HP on Windows taint your opinion for Linux support. Although I'm sure there is one out there, I've yet to find a _new_ HP printer that didn't just work - especially in the mid price range (around the 100 dollar/Euro area).
when printer shopping and buying the Canon. Next time I'll remember that Epson support is available from Brother, might be available from Lexmark, and, naturally, remains available from Epson.
And.. you may be stepping into another pile of problems similar to the Canon one. Brother support on Linux is spotty at best. I've managed to get some Brother printers working and other not at all (Linux couldn't even see some.. forget the model numbers though)... and Lexmark has been hit/miss for me as well. Haven't used an Epson printer since the days of the old 9 and 24 pin dot matrix printers. C. -- openSUSE 12.1 x86_64, KDE 4.9.0 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org