On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 01:37, Alastair Scott wrote: > As someone whose Lexmark printer has just run out of ink (and it's only > about £30 more to get a decent new printer than replace the cartridges) I've > been thinking about this. > > Realistically, the choice for a cheap inkjet running under Linux is between > HP and Epson; Canon drivers are poor and Lexmark terrible or nonexistent. > > If Linux has 5 per cent of market share in OSs, I'd say that each of those > manufacturers has less than 1 per cent Linux customers. > > Evidently HP (in particular) thinks that providing workable drivers for that > fraction of users is worthwhile, but Lexmark (in particular) doesn't. I > don't know, and will probably never know, the corporate motivations for > these stances, but that they are so different is interesting. > > Alastair In a corporate network environment, HP's are primarily used for *NIX/linux boxes. This is from experience. Especially ink jet plotters. Besides, HP printers are just damn cool, and never choke'n'puke like the others.
Don't do Epson. They suck. And I sell 'em. -- Wed Nov 13 18:55:00 EST 2002 -------------------------------- | __ __ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;"""/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' " " |linux user:267497 -------------------------------- My doctorate's in Literature, but it seems like a pretty good pulse to me.
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