On Tuesday 23 October 2007 11:19, Eberhard Roloff wrote: > G T Smith wrote: > > Dennis J. Tuchler wrote: > >> I am looking for users' experience with printers under OpenSuSE. > >> > >> My Lexmark Optra E310 gave up the ghost, and I am looking for a > >> replacement. I need it for small jobs (10 pages or fewer) but with > >> reasonable speed. If possible, a color option would be useful. > >> > >> If you have advice as to what to get, I would appreciate hearing from > >> you. > > > > I would go with the HP vote... all in one if the budget can take the > > strain.... > > Definitely HP, for the quality of their opensource drivers. for the huge > numer of devices they support and to honour their outstanding Linux > engagement. > > But don't be a fool and carefully check the list of supported devices > first, BEFORE you buy.
I thought so! I was the fool, and bought a laser printer made by HP, and it was a Win-printer, and Linux didn' t like it at all. I gave it to my grand-daughter to take to school with her Windows laptop, and she is very happy with it. It's really time for all the Linux vendors to find solutions for the printer problem. There could be a Linux system on a whole lot of home computers if Linux would recognize and control printers, and CD drives, and write CD-r, etc, without any fancy moves. People I know who have tried Linux recognize the printer problem, even if the manufacturers don't. For God's sake, the Linux manufacturers should _buy_ the printer driver code. They want enough money to sell you the OS, along with a $1.00 DVD and a $15 soft-cover book. And I am NOT in favor of SuSE's stance of culling out all the proprietary software that makes a system friendly. I am going to buy Mandriva and try it out next month, when it comes out. If things work out, I may not be back. I am not a computer geek, and since I have retired from a technically savvy company, I don't have any access to the computer geeks, (except for here, of course,) so I need something that works out of the box. Don't tell me to install Windows--I have that on another machine, but they are going to ration it, just as I have suspected all along. Every year or two, you'll have to send them some money to keep it working. --doug > > The link was given by Johannes. > > Happy printing > Eberhard -- Blessed are the peacemakers ... for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M. Greeley -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
