On 10/10/18 12:01 pm, Doug wrote:
On 10/09/2018 07:41 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 9/10/18 11:49 pm, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Hi, does anybody know how well a canon mx494 works on openSUSE:Leap:15.0 Don't buy Canon printers if you intend to use it on Linux. Simple as
On 09/10/2018 12.59, Dave Plater wrote: that.
Absolutely. Consider either EPSON or HP brand.
Years ago, in a moment of total ignorance and mental instability I bought a new, you-beaut Canon printer -- and immediately gave it to a friend who used Windows and then bought myself an HP. But now have only Epson (a photo printer (XP-960) and a scanner (V550)). /snip/
Epson may be problematical. I have a really nice Epson WP-4530, which works perfectly, has good long-life ink, and does everything, including color, two-side printing, FAX, scan, and copy and has usable manual controls for scanning, FAX, etc., as well as being usable from the computer in Linux or Windows. But I've had it for several years--don't know what they're selling now.
HOWEVER: I bought an Epson color printer, model disremembered, for 11"x17" color printing, and it was impossible to calibrate, and the user interface was MINIMAL, to say the least. Also, the ink cartridges were very small and had a very limited life--I used one up just trying to calibrate the thing. I gave it away! Take a look in a Staples or someplace at whatever model you might be interested in, and ask questions. It's possible that the minimalist design has spread throughout the lineup.
Which is why I usually spend a couple of days looking at the specs and reading reviews of whatever-I-intend-to-buy before deciding in the morning after I has slept on the matter on which to buy :-). Some years ago a friend (now unfortunately deceased) bought the Epson Stylus R2000 printer but then added a 'gizmo' which came from a company in the USA which fed the various inks not from the usual cartridges but via tubes from bottles which made it far more economical to run than buying cartridges. I now don't recall the name of the ink company which supplied that addition to the printer (?The Ink Company?). Also, if you want to have archival quality prints then use pigment-based inks in your printer -- the dyes aren't archival material.
I now have an HP that not only does 11"x17", it will also scan and copy without any problems at all, including scanning the full size.
--doug
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