-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2008-09-09 at 17:46 +0200, Klaus Singvogel wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote: [...]
And this is a company that sponsors linux! (3) Why this perverse denial?
To my humble knowledge the situation is different.
Well, I meant that in the (3) link there is a big "sponsored by HP invent" right at the top, and I thought they did something more for linux than a web page. I understand you can buy some HP computers with some linux preinstalled :-?
HP invents new printers and the Windows drivers at the very same time, but not the Linux drivers. After quiet some time the Linux drivers appear in the hplip project at sourceforge -- or not. But in the meantime, and this is typicaly the same period of time when a HP printer is avail at the market, no one knows the future state of the printer: will there be drivers (support) for Linux or not?
Yes, that's exactly my situation :-(
A good evaluation might be the price. Too cheap models will never be supported, all others will (98% ?). Don't even think about the cheap ones. :-)
I know that! I have been bitten before, several times, not only with printers. Which is what I say: it is difficult to buy something for linux. You go to the shop, write down what you find, go back home, google, surf, whatever, find out, back to the shop or to find another shop... Heh, the printers I find in media mark, for instance, are the HP2600N, CP1215 and HP1600, quite difficult to find on the HP (Spain) web page, which instead suggests the HP1600, CP1210 or CP1510 (I like the last one better). The 2600 specification page can not be found. Why? Another vendor told me that they no longer make it, so they are selling the stocks the vendors have fast. It is very difficult to determine for sure whether a particular printer of all the above works in linux or not. I think Samsung lists on the printer box that linux is supported. Good! But I found out the driver is closed source... so I said no and turned to another make.
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I wouldn't name this site as first choice for support information about HP printers. Till and his helpers are always behind the actual situation of printers. Better use http://hplip.sourceforge.net/ instead. :-)
I have looked at both. The 1510 is not listed on neither (nor on the unsupported list), but some of the links I looked at mention the driver or that it is supported. One of the comments said that they have been using this model for years, which makes funny the fact that it is not listed on the hplip page. All this is having me nearly a nervous breakdown :-P I must stop drinking tea. Perhaps a "tila" will be better. Expending +200€ on limited info, with a real risk of finding it doesn't work in linux is bad for my nerves. Argh! This is turning into a support question, and I did not intend it. I just wanted to put an example of how difficult is to buy hardware that works in linux, which helps to turn new users out running for their lives. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIxrlqtTMYHG2NR9URAosIAJ47BM/2eOyLEiLSxon/mpDqIgdMXACfRrph ccwKMFhRHfpvDbqZmCn9WVc= =5ban -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----