Want to buy a HP printer ?
This is what I received from HP-support: (received 06 jul
2000)
Thanks for E-mailing, Eric.
Thank you for contacting Hewlett-Packard's Customer Care.
I understand you are looking for a Linux driver.
Overview
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Linux is a UNIX (R) clone available free of charge on
the
Internet. There are also several distributors of the
Linux
operating system including Debian, Red Hat, Caldera,
Slackware,
and S.u.S.E. Linux is a true 32-bit operating system
solution and
is becoming a rival to MS-DOS (R), Microsoft (R)
Windows and OS/2
in the personal computer market.
Hewlett-Packard is not supplying printer drivers for
the Linux
environment at this time, November of 1999.
ISSUE: Most HP DeskJet and Professional Series
printers will
operate in the Linux environment using
drivers supplied
by Linux.
Linux supports a wide range of HP printers.
If MS-DOS
or some other operating system can access the
printer
from the parallel port, Linux should be able
to access
it also.
SUMMARY: Most HP DeskJet and Professional Series
printers, with
the exception of host-based printers, will
function in
the Linux environment using drivers supplied
by Linux.
Hewlett-Packard has not written Linux drivers
for HP
DeskJet or Professional Series printers at
this time
and does not support printing in the Linux
environment.
Performing a printer self-test should test
basic
printer functionality.
Please visit our Hewlett-Packard Customer Care web site at
http://www.hp.com/support/deskjet for additional technical
and
troubleshooting information and the latest printer software
updates.
Once again, thank you for contacting Hewlett-Packard's
Customer Care.
NOTE: Our advice is strictly limited to the question(s)
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based on the information provided to us. Problems and
solutions may
depend on the nature of your system environment and various
other
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responsibility or liability. Please be advised that
technical
information changes as new data becomes available,
therefore, HP
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located at
http://www.hp.com/go/support regularly for possible
updates.
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indirect, special,
incidental or consequential damages in connection with the
use of this
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