On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 07:54 +0200, Uwe Fechner wrote: > It's not a good idea, to use the newest and cheapest inkjet with > linux.
Not only that, it's also not a good idea to buy the cheapest printer EVER - it'll cost you a lot more than a more expensive one over its lifetime. I largely ignore the sticker price and work on estimated consumable costs - it won't matter much whether the printer is $50 or $500. Like everything else in Linux, you do need to ensure the hardware is compatible too. Unfortunate, but not something that'll be going away in a great hurry. Manufacturers want stable driver ABIs and want to ship binary-only drivers. Open Source developers generally want flexible APIs, don't want to worry about an ABI, and aren't at *all* fond of binary only drivers. Unless this is resolved somehow, I expect you'll have to be careful about compatibilty for quite some time yet. -- Craig Ringer
