[mdlug] HP Linux Printer At Big LOTS?

[Jeff Hanson]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 6:26 AM, Peter Bart <peter at petertheplumber.net> wrote:
>  Oooooooooh, shiney pretty I want ;) But seriously, my next one will be a
>  color laser. After spitting up the bucks for a Brother mono laser with
>  sheet feeder years ago, I'm never going back. Toner is cheap but I've
>  never replaced a cartridge yet. I would look at Brother again only
>  because they do provide drivers in rpm and deb and detailed instructions
>  on how to install. It's not as painless as HP though.

The printers I bought last fall during the Black Friday sales all worked well:
http://jhansonxi.blogspot.com/2007/11/my-linux-aspected-black-friday-assault.html

The Brother and HP inkjets had network support so they were easy.  I
had some trouble with getting the Samsung CLP-300 working on Ubuntu
Gutsy but Hardy has a open-source driver and all I did was plug it in.
 Color quality was adequate but all I've done so far is print a couple
of Penguicon posters.