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Lead Head:
Had a lexmark Z53, neat little printer....until I got my Canon iP3000
H_TeXMeX_H:
--- Quote from: etement ---My experience Lexmark also made me hate them. For recommendations, I have an HP PSC 1315 all-in-one and it works great with Linux.
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Yeah Lexmark is the worst printer company out there AFAIK. I have an HP PSC 1610 All-in-One and you can do everything you want with it using hplip. You can scan, print, copy, anything. It's awesome, and the ink doesn't dry on the cartrige like with most Canon and Lexmark printers.
Here's a list of HPLIP supported devices and whether you can scan or not:
http://hplip.sourceforge.net/supported_devices/combined.html
There's also hpoj, but I've found that they support fewer printers (especially scan support ... I cannot scan with my printer using these drivers, cuz it's not supported):
http://hpoj.sourceforge.net/suplist.shtml
and if you don't like HP or want more options, here's the site I used to select my printer:
http://www.linuxprinting.org/suggested.html
Calum:
i find the opposite to the little lexmark story, i have had not many printers but my experience is that using the proprietary software, they work under windows. not having any proprietary software to install under mandrake, fedora, slack, debian etc, means that the printers don't work, work erratically, or take a bit of effort to get working.
the reason for this has nothing to do with windows being better or worse, but the intention of hardware manufacturers to release supporting software, in my opinion. I do know one thing, without the software under windows, the printer would not work at all. Your chances are much better with fedora than windows, if you have lost your driver disk.
WMD:
I have a Lexmark Z52. Except for that time it "broke" (attached to Windows 95) and I put it in the closet for 2 years before taking it back out and having it work perfectly (attached to Linux), it's been pretty good. Sometimes under Linux and OS X, the color won't print right (everything is banded, even with a new cartridge), but I rarely print in color so I don't care. Sure, I don't have the "printing complete" in OS X (which i thought was amusing when I bought it), but at least I can plug/unplug the thing while going to/coming from classes without having the OS go apeshit over it.
solemnwarning:
I've got a HP Deskjet 3845 on my LAN server using hplip and CUPS, that is accessed by 2 PC's and my laptop using IPP/HTTP, HP ftw!
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