[mdlug] HP Linux Printer At Big LOTS?

Jeff Hanson jhansonxi at gmail.com
Mon Mar 17 15:58:05 EDT 2008


On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 9:09 AM, David Lane <dcl400m at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have had a Lexmark printer, It did not work for Linux.
>  I have had a Canon Pixma Printer, It did not work for Lunix.

I never liked Lexmark printers.  The ones I've used had bad paper
handling and always skewed the printing.  Their Linux SDK only
supports a few models.  I'm not sure if their other models require
binary blobs that aren't in the SDK or no independant developers like
their products enough to bother adding support for them.

>  I do know that HP has tools for OpenSuse, and I walk in to a Big LOTS, and there is a Deskjet D1415  for $26.00. There are similar models selling at Best Buy, and other stores for 69.00.  The only thing you have to deal with is that it does not come with is that you need to get black ink, it just comes with color.

That model isn't listed on HP's support site.  Maybe it's an OEM
model.  I only found a forum post at Ubuntu about it not printing
correctly.



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