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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommended printer?
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:40:08 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <j7s088$jg2$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4EA0E3BF.4050708@gmail.com

On 2011-10-21, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> Michael J. Barillier wrote:
>> I've wasted enough time beating on my current boat anchor of a printer
>> hoping it'll start working.  linuxprinting.org is currently offline, so
>> in the meantime does anyone have a suggestion for an inexpensive printer
>> that is known to work with cupsd and Gentoo?
>>
>
> I have always had good luck with HP.  So far, all have worked fine.  
> Heck, I even got one at Walmart real cheap once and it worked for 
> several years.  The ink is what gets me tho.  $$$$$$$

I've got an HP LaserJet 1220, that works brilliantly.  It knows
Postscript so there are no hassle with "drivers", postscript is what
Unix apps produce when they want to print.  I've had it for 6-7 years
and haven't had to buy toner yet.

-- 
Grant Edwards               grant.b.edwards        Yow! Th' MIND is the Pizza
                                  at               Palace of th' SOUL
                              gmail.com            




  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-10-21 14:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-21  0:32 [gentoo-user] Recommended printer? Michael J. Barillier
2011-10-21  0:55 ` Michael Mol
2011-10-22 23:27   ` Grant
2011-10-22 23:57     ` Dale
2011-10-23  8:30       ` Pandu Poluan
2011-10-21  0:58 ` David Abbott
2011-10-21  3:15 ` Dale
2011-10-21  6:54   ` Mick
2011-10-21 14:40   ` Grant Edwards [this message]
2011-10-21  7:20 ` Helmut Jarausch
2011-10-21  7:31   ` Mike Sampson
2011-10-21  7:54   ` Neil Bothwick
2011-10-21 15:06 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-10-21 15:22   ` Michael Mol

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