On Monday 30 April 2007 23:07, Kai Ponte wrote: > On Monday 30 April 2007 06:46:09 pm Doug McGarrett wrote: > > I don't mean to piggyback on this thread, but it seems easiest, and is > > not really OT. > > Yeah....right... > > </jane curtian mode> I don't know who jane curtian might be, sorry-- > > > Having had problems with printers in 9.3, which I intend to stay with > > until probably at least 6 months from now, I would like a recommendation > > for a low-cost laser that will absolutely work with this OS out of the > > box. > > Well, my Epson CX3200 USB printer/scanner worked perfectly out of the box > on 9.1 > 10.1. I've had no issues whatsoever. I have an HP 1380 at work > (parallel) which works as well. > > My mom's got a HP somethingoranother printer and had an Epson RX300 before > that. (It sucked up too much ink, though.) > > > I can use USB or parallel, whichever is more reliable. I am getting > > more and more frustrated with M/S and XP/SP2, and since I lost almost > > everything in a disk crash, now is the time to look more seriously at > > Linux, but I _must_ have working printing!!! > > > > (If I could install and get hplip to work, > > AFAIK, hplip only works on 10.0 or newer systems. I've not looked in > awhile. It is a nice utility, tho.
Maybe that's why I can't get the LJ 2200 to work on 9.3. It tries, but won't. And hplip is not loaded, and apparently won't. > > > I might be able to use my big HP > > Laser, that used to work with 10.0, but I've had no luck doing that. Any > > help would be appreciated. Do I have to download a different copy that > > isn't on the floppies from someplace, and if so, where? And how? > > Dunno. By "big" do you mean an old HP LJIIIsi or a 9500hdn? Well it's about that big, and does wonderful printing, just not from 9.3. For the mention from someone before about color lasers, I don't have the resources to support supplies, and I rather seldom have the need for color output. --doug > > -- > kai > > Free Compean and Ramos > http://www.grassfire.org/142/petition.asp > http://www.perfectreign.com/?q=node/46 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
