Hi<br><br>I had the need to install a new printer the other week in Mac OSX 10.4, Ubuntu 10.04 and Windows XP. It was an Epson R300.<br><br>Windows XP was ok but it required drivers and additional software to be downloaded. Mac OSX required driver downloading and it was a really pain to set up. I had to install it twice.<br>
<br>Ubuntu was a breeze. Plugged it in and the damn thing worked within a minute or so. No driver download.<br><br>Amazing.<br><br>Simon<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Chris G <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:cl@isbd.net">cl@isbd.net</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 12:59:23PM +0000, Brett Parker wrote:<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; If it&#39;s printing, then I&#39;m afraid that OSX is actually just using cups,<br>
&gt; and an out of the box cups on a modern linux is Damned Good at &quot;just<br>
&gt; working&quot;.<br>
&gt;<br>
I second that opinion, it&#39;s *far*, *far* easier setting up printers on<br>
Linux than on anything else nowadays.<br>
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Chris Green<br>
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