<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> I also would favour HP at first, regardless of other factors, because of their close relationship with the FOSS drivers. The wrapped drivers package I think called HPLIP is installed in Ubuntu by default, or so it has seemed to me anyway. However a problem I have found, via a novice friend who went out and and bought himself a new (end of line) all in one HP printer was that the regular updates in Ubuntu do not seem to pick up the latest HPLIP by a long way. This meant that my novice but stolid friend found it did not work in Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS (updated) and was then in conversation with the given support phone number (HP) for long conversations. As I discovered later, he had downloaded the latest HPLIP, manually, multiple times within the support conversation (7 times I think!) but he had not been able to successfully complete the subsequent instructions, until the HP support politely gave up saying they did not really support Linux on that line. Kudos to them to persist that long!! Removing the old HPLIP in his Ubuntu and installing the new one manually was not difficult for me but it was way above my friend. However if the HPLIP was kept more up to date in the repos it would have gone along easily and probably automatically. -- alan cocks Ubuntu user </blockquote> Is that not worth a bug report? HPLIP package not kept up to date on automatic updates? </div> -- Regards, Andy