On 26/03/18 12:45 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
| From: Alex Volkov via talk <talk@gtalug.org>
| I've configured several HP inkjet printers in my life, and in my experience, | for the novice user -- compiling and installing linux kernel from scratch is a | much more straightforward process.
Interesting.
We have an ancient HP printer/scanner that Just Worked on Linux (unless the trauma was so bad that I've suppressed the memory). It gets used regularly for scanning. It rarely gets used for (colour, inkjet) printing. So rarely that once in a while I have to rediscover how to unclog the jets by soaking the cartridge in hot water. If it were used regularly that would not happen.
I hate inkjets. But I love the fact that they can do colour. We accumulated four or five as freebes a decade ago when they were thrown in free with computer purchases.
I suffered from that for a while, and eventually bought an inexpensive color laser that Linux knew about, an HP M117fw, which works well so long as I don't muck up the cups settings (I did that once and it printed copies of a rejected candidate's resume every time I booted it, much to Joyce's annoyance). --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest davecb@spamcop.net | -- Mark Twain