HP all in one fax/print/scan, for me
HP all in one fax/print/scan, for me
I can say that my 2 Brother devices, an MFC-6490CW & MFC-430W were pretty simple to install, both USB and WiFi. I don't have any HP devices currently but you can go to this site and see which Brother devices have Linux support:
http://welcome.solutions.brother.com.../en/index.html
I've developed a fondness for Brother due to reasonable ink prices and the availability of refillable cartridges. Remember with inkjets in particular that the first cost - buying the machine - is usually the cheapest.
I'm surprised nobody mentioned Epson, yet
But yeah, Epson printers are usually supported. You can check the avasys website and see which particular models work.
As for specific models, I have used the T10, T13 and currently the ME32. All are inkjets, though.
Usually HP printers have pretty good support. Look around for the best deals and check the forums and google to see if there's a CUPS driver available and if people have gotten it to work.
By the way, have you posted a help thread for your current printer. If it was supposed to work on linux, maybe we can get it working. I wouldn't trust customer support too much, especially regarding linux problems.
If it helps at all, this printer is has absolutely no issues with linux/OSX/windows. Though it is abit old- not really a top line product either..
http://printscan.about.com/od/hpprin...ne-Printer.htm
(when talking about linux. dismiss those "cons" the setup takes little more than 5secs without touching the printer at all- just install HPLIP, added printer, wireless, or LAN, it will instantly find and calibrate- or did for me regardless the version of ubuntu i upgraded to as time went on)
+1 for HP all in ones. I bought mine a few weeks ago from Asda for £25. Reading the box on the way round I could see that it said it only included drivers for Win and Apple OSX. (I wasn't too concerned though as the missus's computer is running Win XP Pro). But on arriving home, a quick search on the HP website soon directed me to open source drivers (the HPLIP). Only took a few minutes to download and install. I even had to use the terminal, but kept the instruction web page open and simply copied and pasted the commands in to the terminal . (thank christ for copy and paste ehh)
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