Le 07/06/2013 12:33, Tom Davies a écrit :
Hi Tom,
Does anyone know of companies that do product-lines that are easily compatible with
Gnu&Linux?
My 2cents :
Canon : OK for workgroup printing, even fairly complicated option stuff
*_IF_* you manage to get hold of a PPD file that you can then fiddle
with to add the missing options that you don't get with their standard
driver...
Absolute crap for everything else, scanning, photocopying, faxing
directly from the PC client, even under Mac. They write all their driver
stuff for Windows first, then as an afterthought for Mac, and by
extension Linux/Unix OSes. This may have changed in the last three
years, as I haven't tested recently, but we had one hell of a bad time
with the rented Canon iR Fax/Photocopier/Scanner/Printer that a rather
clueless associate of mine decided to have put into the firm I was
working in at the time. The sales support were equally lacking in
proficiency - what's Linux ? No one uses OSX anymore, etc, etc. You
might want to check today, though, you never know, they might have had
an epiphany !!
We switched to HP - much better support, and the technicians were mostly
OS agnostic (sales support as usual only knew that it ran in a Windows
OS environment). However, printing quality and colour rendering was not
always up to par with the HP device compared to the Canon. Swings and
roundabouts, I guess.
Alex
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