Thanks Paul, and Ian. I went to the linuxprinting.org site, but it wasn't much help in my case as they don't have my machine listed. They do have a couple of others though, the X75 and X125 which are very much the same. However, they only have a limited driver for the printer but with no scanner driver.
I'm getting a Brother HL 1430 next week Paul, and I have checked to see that SUSE has list machine listed, so hopefully it'll install ok.
When I can afford it I'll either get a Brother or HP all in one, or (more likely) another colour printer and scanner for use on the Mac and Linux machines. In the mean time I'll do my scanning via the Windows box. It's a pain but at least I can print my photos on the Mac.
I'm still learning, and finding out things very fast. So who knows, in time I may be able to understand some of this!!
Cheers all,
Peter
On Friday 04 March 2005 17:16, Paul wrote:
Hi Peter
I would suggest writing a strong letter to the CEO of lexmark asking why, after spending good money on a printer, that it is only supported to two minor operating systems... Then I would look at the Brother laser range, or HP's all-in-one machines. The latter would need to be double checked against the compatabilty database.. The HP G85 certainly does work both as a scanner and a printer, although somewhat expensive to run..
Regards, Paul.
On Friday 04 March 2005 16:42, Peter Hunter wrote:
I can only assume that this particular printer won't actually work under Linux. If that is the case, can anyone recommend a relatively cheap printer that will work?