On Wed, 18 May 2011 14:51:18 -0400, Robert Clipsham
<rob...@octarineparrot.com> wrote:
On 18/05/2011 16:20, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
Printer support is woefully missing. My 2-year old printer still isn't
supported on Linux.
Now this is beyond me. Everyone I've talked to says printer support in
Linux sucks, but I've been through several printers, and Linux has been
the only operating system I've used that's had no problems with it.
Regardless of the distro, it picks up a local or network printer and
allows me to print without any configuration whatsoever - apparently it
doesn't 'just work' for anyone else though. In OS X and Windows I have
to manually find network printers and find drivers online, only the
latter for local printers. Even then they don't always work.
At work, since I've been here (almost 2 years), my laptop always cuts off
about 1/8 of an inch from the left of the page. Until the latest upgrade
to ubuntu 11, I would have to adjust the "image quality" to 1200 dpi every
time I printed (even from the same application) or else any graphics on a
page would be super-grainy like I printed it in 1995.
I'm sure it works great in some cases. Just not in general. And mostly
not for me :(
-Steve
