Printer

[R. Wood]

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Allegedly, on Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:07:31AM -0400, Eugene Cormier stated:
> I just have to throw in my 2 cents here....I dumped 2 Lexmark inkjets
> about 2-3 years ago which I replaced with a couple of Samsung laser
> printers ($99 each).....I was totally blown away to find inside the
> packaging for the laser printer a CD with Linux drivers for CUPS + a
> nice little "auto-compile and install" script....the drivers are all
> built into Ubuntu so there is no need to use the CD, but for messing
> with other OSes without the drivers included in the kernel it is
> really handy to have
> 
> I've had a great experience with Samsung laser (2 years in and I've
> replaced 1 toner cart.)
> 
> Eugene

An encouraging story :-)

IMHO a moral here is to make all your purchases (including printers) a
'vote' -- reward those vendors who have supported linux, and do not
reward those vendors who have not.

Have Fun with GNU/Linux,
Raymond
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