[PLUG] In the market for a printer/scanner

Dick Steffens dick at dicksteffens.com
Fri Nov 2 04:58:54 UTC 2018


On 11/1/18 7:48 PM, Edward Koenig wrote:
>> On Nov 1, 2018, at 10:18 AM, Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com> wrote:
>>
>> What are people happy with in the area of printer/scanners these days? I'm not interested in ink jet, just laser. And while I probably don't really need color printing, I'll consider ...
> You can’t really miss with most HP printers.  These are generally well supported under Linux in CUPS and HPLIP
>
> https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing/gethplip
>
> (Also in most distro repos). Scanner support sometimes takes a proprietary blob plugin, but that is fairly well automated in HPLIP.  I know some here despise HP laser printers but they have never let me down - so far.
>
> Make sure to check the supported printers list esp. if you repo has an older version.

Thanks. I'll keep that in mind.

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Regards,

Dick Steffens





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