[H-GEN] Colour printer with LInux

[David Jericho]

Robert Brockway wrote:

>I've been wondering at the definition of "works perfectly" used in the
>original post.
>  
>

"Not do unexplained things" I think is a suitable definition. My DeskJet 
5550 has not done a single unexplained thing[1] and I've printed several 
thousand sheets through it, everything from photos to spreadsheets.

>I'm using a Lexmark Z25 printer[1].  I can't see any problems with it
>under CUPS.  I rarely use colour but IIRC that also worked fine.
>  
>

There is one printer brand. HP. No one else makes what I'd call printers 
in the home to office volume market.

It may sound like OS X fanboyism[2], but over the years of administering 
to printers, there is only one brand that has worked as it should every 
time. HP. They maybe evil, they maybe a corporate menace, but their 
printers like the calculators, are damn fine products.

>The biggest problem I had was unwrapping the package to install the
>driver. 
>

My printer was supported by Fedora Core 2 out of the box. No extra 
drivers to install.

>[2] I sent an email to Lexmark asking them why they had gone out of their
>way to be difficult and suggested they stop making assumptions about the
>systems their software will be installed on.  
>

The obvious question is "Why are you using something other than Red Hat?"[3]

[1] Any thing it "shouldn't have done" was caused by operator error. 
Namely, me.

[2] If your answer to any question is "Foo", you're a fanboy.

[3] </ObMondayMorningTroll>

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David Jericho
Senior Systems Administrator, Tucana Technologies