[olug] Printers and Linux compatibility

[Brian Roberson]

I confess...

the website is vague about my involvement, As I actually did some of the MLC
decoding, but hey, at least my name is still on there :)




----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Penne" <epenne at yahoo.com>
To: <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: [olug] Printers and Linux compatibility


> Somebody on this list was active in that hpoj development but I don't
> remember who.  I personally gave up on Cups for local printing support.
>  The documentation was not up to par for me.  LPRng on the other hand,
> I didn't even really need to read much documentation.  Just enough to
> find the lprngtool command.
>
> Using a paid for print driver I got my Canon to work in Linux.
> Printers with PostScript support are a must for network printing.  It
> simplifies printer isntallation.  I might not even worry about CUPS or
> LPRng support and instead just say PostScript support.  If it supports
> PostScript then there isn't a need to for a specific driver.
>
> What does everybody else think about just specifing PS support?
>
> Eric
>
>
> --- Jay Swackhamer <Jay at RebootTheUser.com> wrote:
> > The only thing missing for the HP officejet series, is the fax
> > capability
> > from the workstations.
> >
> > If you need a deployed example/testimonial, I have an HP G95 on my
> > network, with shared printing/scanning setup.
> >
> >
> > > I was just reading something about HP and their multifunction
> > > (officejet) printer support for GNU/Linux, there is even a nice
> > > sourceforge page dedicated to it. [1]  I recently installed cups in
> > > Debian, got all the driver packages/database and all - I was quite
> > > suprised, there was a lot of printers listed in there.  As for
> > > multifunction printers though, this is all I have seen.  I would
> > > definately go with HP in this respect (almost all printing
> > respects) and
> > > because they tend to give a lot of Linux support.  I think so does
> > Epson
> > > (with scanners?) [2]
> > >
> > > [1] http://hpoj.sourceforge.net/
> > > [2] http://www.buzzard.org.uk/jonathan/scanners-usb.html
> > > http://www.freecolormanagement.com/sane/index.html
> > > http://www.epkowa.co.jp/english/linux_e/linux.html
> > >
> > > peace
> > > Brian
> > >
> > > On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:30:54 -0600
> > > "Craig Wolf" <CJWolf at mpsomaha.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > |I have been asked for info to provide as part of a spec for
> > > |multi-function printers coming into the district.  We want them to
> > be
> > > |"Linux Compatible", you know, to prepare for possible future
> > > |transitions.  8<)  I am looking for opinions on now to phrase
> > that.
> > > |Should I goto the level of "being compatible with CUPS and LPRng",
> > > |should I just say that "it has to work with LSB compatible
> > systems" or
> > > |is there something else I am missing that would be better?
> > Anything
> > > |would be helpful...
> > > |
> > > |Thanx to all in advance!
> > > |
> > > |
> > > |Craig Wolf
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