On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 05:08:38PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
Jamie French wrote:
Also if you are looking for cheap ink, epson and cannon seem to have the edge.
Canon were offensively anti-Linux, last I looked. Have they changed?
As the OP I've been researching this quite a bit and, as far as I can see printer drivers for Linux seem to be as follows:-
Brother - quite good support, drivers are on the Brother web site, probably not as complete or new as Windows but at least they're there.
Epson - I've not really looked as the Epson printers don't do what I want but I gather there are Linux drivers.
HP - Don't tend to explicitly support Linux but, since PCL is a 'published' language, printer support is available for most HP printers from third parties.
Lexmark/Dell - MS Windows support only.
Canon - MS Windows support only.
The above applies mostly to inkjet printers of course as many Laser printers (even non-HP ones) have PCL emulation and/or postscript.
Samsung, although they have their own printer language, do support Linux with their cheap colour lasers.