[mdlug] HP printer working well

[Raymond McLaughlin]

Jeff Hanson wrote:

> 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.

Are you talking about support for sending faxs from applications, i.e. 
the fax device appears as a printer? Or are you saying that computer 
support is needed to use it as a fax machine at all? I'm asking because 
I have seen printer/scanner/copier/fax devices made so cheaply that they 
had *no* stand alone functionality at all. They had to be connected to a 
running computer to do anything. I would avoid those like the plague!

> 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.

Are you saying they were already in the repository and they would 
automatically install when you plugged it in, or do you mean they were 
already included in the distribution?