On Mon, 22 Jun 2020, King Beowulf wrote:
The only printer/scanner company that I know of that explicitly supports Linux is HP. HPLIP already comes installed on Slackware, and, while is can be a bit tricky at times to set up, it HPLIP does work well. Check the device list here:
Ed, My printers have all been HP until I replaced the color laser C2500 with the Dell/Xerox one. I've not had a printer driver issue (but it took a bit of searching to find the Xerox Phaser 6000 driver for the Dell rebranded Xerox color laser printer. Over the years I've had a Umax, Epson, and now the Canon scanners. They were all models that sane listed as having complete support. And they all worked as they should, until the hardware failed. I've no idea what the Canon tech meant by support for only Windows and MacOS because I explained to him why the failure was not a software issue. Initially, lsusb, xsane, sane-find-scanner, scanimage -L, and Canon's scangearmp2 found the hardware. Once, scangearmp3 successfully communicated with the hardware and produced a PDF. After that, when I tried to re-scan the page xsane reported an I/O issue that prevented the software from communicating with the hardware. And none of the other software could find the hardware, inluding xsane. I saw this situation as a hardware failure, not a software issue, and independent from the underlying OS. Perhaps the tech's lack of linux knowledge kept him from understanding that five different software tools found the connected hardware only once so it was not a software issue. Shrug. Regards, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
