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?
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On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 02:43:31PM -0000, 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).
My parents have a HP PSC 750, it has caused me so much pain and grief under Windows and Linux that I want to stab it.
Adam
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On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 02:43:31PM -0000, 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).
My parents have a HP PSC 750, it has caused me so much pain and grief under Windows and Linux that I want to stab it.
Adam
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adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
My parents have a HP PSC 750, it has caused me so much pain and grief under Windows and Linux that I want to stab it.
What's the problem. Basically all you need is the hpoj ptal scripts/daemon which allows CUPS to pick it up. My PSC1205 works fine.
IAn
On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 20:06, Ian bell wrote:
What's the problem. Basically all you need is the hpoj ptal scripts/daemon which allows CUPS to pick it up. My PSC1205 works fine.
IAn
Ditto. PSC 1205 works fine. Sometime I have to unplug/replug the USB if it doesn't pick it up at boot time...
Peter
Peter Onion wrote:
On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 20:06, Ian bell wrote:
What's the problem. Basically all you need is the hpoj ptal scripts/daemon which allows CUPS to pick it up. My PSC1205 works fine.
IAn
Ditto. PSC 1205 works fine. Sometime I have to unplug/replug the USB if it doesn't pick it up at boot time...
Peter
Probably a hotplug issue.
Ian
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 08:06:30PM +0000, Ian bell wrote:
adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
My parents have a HP PSC 750, it has caused me so much pain and grief under Windows and Linux that I want to stab it.
What's the problem. Basically all you need is the hpoj ptal scripts/daemon which allows CUPS to pick it up. My PSC1205 works fine.
Mainly the having to reboot the PSC750 about 50% of the time when trying to print because the PSC750 goes off into la-la land and won't respond and gets itself into a confused state. Quite often after this it will lie to the driver about its status and you end up having to restart all the hpoj stuff and cups etc. pretty much the same for Windows except you have to reboot the whole machine as the HP drivers aren't very good (at one point we got some 3rd party drivers for Windows and it made the quality of the scanner about a million times better than the crap HP put on the CD) It didn't help at the time that I first got it running the hpoj layer was about as stable as a jelly lighthouse making the whole thing as useful as a square wheel.
Basically, not impressed it just seemed a bit too Windows like for a printer. I tend to prefer things not to need some silly hpoj layer I would rather spend the money on a separate scanner and printer combo. The only possible advantage I can see of having a multifunction device like this is if you often make copies of things and don't want to have to boot a computer to do so, on that count I can't fault the PSC750, and the print quality is pretty good also.
Adam
adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 08:06:30PM +0000, Ian bell wrote:
adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
My parents have a HP PSC 750, it has caused me so much pain and grief under Windows and Linux that I want to stab it.
What's the problem. Basically all you need is the hpoj ptal scripts/daemon which allows CUPS to pick it up. My PSC1205 works fine.
Mainly the having to reboot the PSC750 about 50% of the time when trying to print because the PSC750 goes off into la-la land and won't respond and gets itself into a confused state. Quite often after this it will lie to the driver about its status and you end up having to restart all the hpoj stuff and cups etc. pretty much the same for Windows except you have to reboot the whole machine as the HP drivers aren't very good (at one point we got some 3rd party drivers for Windows and it made the quality of the scanner about a million times better than the crap HP put on the CD) It didn't help at the time that I first got it running the hpoj layer was about as stable as a jelly lighthouse making the whole thing as useful as a square wheel.
Not good. presumably the 750 is an older model than my 1205 so hopefully they have learned some lessons.
Basically, not impressed it just seemed a bit too Windows like for a printer. I tend to prefer things not to need some silly hpoj layer I would rather spend the money on a separate scanner and printer combo. The only possible advantage I can see of having a multifunction device like this is if you often make copies of things and don't want to have to boot a computer to do so, on that count I can't fault the PSC750, and the print quality is pretty good also.
I use mine mailny because I don't have the room for a separate scanner (and it is a very cheap colour copier).
Ian
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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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