13 Dec
2004
13 Dec
'04
7:58 p.m.
Keith Watson wrote:
As the price of these things seem to be dropping lately I've been googling round seeing how compatible they are with GNU/Linux. The Linux Printers site (http://www.linuxprinting.org/) seems to favour Epson (although HP gets favourable mentions).
Anyone on the list use one of these devices with Linux?
I have an HP PSC1205. It worked pretty much out of the box with Mandrake 9.2 but who knows what was going on under the hood.
That said, I mainly use Slackware 10.0 now and some manual intervention was necessary to get it working but that is entirely HP specific so it may differ for other makes/models.
In use it is a dream. xsane scans like a good un and printing is a breeze.
IAn
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Ian T-Bell
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