[mdlug] HP printer working well

[Jeff Hanson]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Ingles, Raymond
<Raymond.Ingles at compuware.com> wrote:
> I like that HP specifically makes Linux drivers available for most of
> their printers and updates them. My parents old printer died, and
> looking at circular deals, I had them pick up an HP C5580; the printer
> itself worked out of the box, my father (who's not a computer type) had
> no trouble. The scanner didn't work at first (they're running an older
> Ubuntu) but I was able to download and install the latest HP Linux
> drivers and it was quite straightforward.
>
>  Just offering a datapoint.
>

Lexmark's support for Linux is minimal but even if they were as good
as HP I wouldn't buy one.  Their paper handling is horrible.  Brother
and Samsung have good support.  My Brother MFC-440CN doesn't have
facsimile support under Linux but I don't need it.  The Samsung laser
printers I bought last year work well.  On Ubuntu I keep wasting time
finding and installing drivers for new hardware only to find out they
were already in the repo and all I had to do was plug it in.