Am Donnerstag, 26. Juli 2012 schrieb Gaël DONVAL: > Three goods points were raised: > 1) Postscript printers (advertised so) are great in that regard because > they only need a PPD (ASCII) file to work. This is not the only way to > be sure the printer will work in 10 years but this is the easiest (BTW, > I have never heard of someone complaining because some binary blobs for > his printer were not available anymore...). > 2) Even with open source drivers, you cannot control the firmware of > the printer: some printers are programmed to force you to visit your > reseller once in a while for "maintenance" or just stop working.
What? Well I better look that up in this thread. I am quite confident my HP OfficeJet 5610 doesn´t contain such a nasty firmware, as I am using it for a real long time now. -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201208022019.16708.mar...@lichtvoll.de
